CHAPTER 9 :1 And the fifth angel sounded , and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth : and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit . :2 And he opened the bottomless pit ; and there arose a smoke out of the pit , as the smoke of a great furnace ; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit . :3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth : and unto them was given power , as the scorpions of the earth have power . :4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth , neither any green thing, neither any tree ; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads . :5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months : and their torment [was] as the torment of a scorpion , when he striketh a man . :6 And in those days shall men seek death , and shall not find it; and shall desire to die , and death shall flee from them. :7 And the shapes of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared unto battle ; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold , and their faces [were] as the faces of men . :8 And they had hair as the hair of women , and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions . :9 And they had breastplates , as it were breastplates of iron ; and the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle . :10 And they had tails like unto scorpions , and there were stings in their tails : and their power [was] to hurt men five months . :11 And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon , but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon . :12 One woe is past ; [and], behold , there come two woes more hereafter . :13. And the sixth angel sounded , and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God , :14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet , Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates . :15 And the four angels were loosed , which were prepared for an hour , and a day , and a month , and a year , for to slay the third part of men . :16 And the number of the army of the horsemen [were] two hundred thousand thousand : and I heard the number of them. :17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision , and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire , and of jacinth , and brimstone : and the heads of the horses [were] as the heads of lions ; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone . :18 By these three was the third part of men killed , by the fire , and by the smoke , and by the brimstone , which issued out of their mouths . :19 For their power is in their mouth , and in their tails : for their tails [were] like unto serpents , and had heads , and with them they do hurt . :20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands , that they should not worship devils , and idols of gold , and silver , and brass , and stone , and of wood : which neither can see , nor hear , nor walk : :21 Neither repented they of their murders , nor of their sorceries , nor of their fornication , nor of their thefts . ~~~~~~