1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss.

2And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a burning furnace; and the sun and the air became dark by reason of the smoke of the pit.

3And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

4And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads.

5And it was given them 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 it striketh a man.

6And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were golden crowns, and their faces were as men’s faces.

8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

9And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to war.

10And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails they have power to hurt men five months.

11They have as king over them the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek tongue he hath the name Apollyon.

12The first Woe is past: behold, there come yet two Woes hereafter.

13And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

14saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.

15And the four angels were loosed, that had been prepared for the hour and for the day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.

16And the number of the armies of horse was ten thousand times ten thousand: I heard the number of them.

17And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates as of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone: and the heads of the horses are as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceedeth fire and smoke and brimstone.

18By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths.

19For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt.

20And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:

21and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.