1 Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star that had fallen out of heaven to the earth, and to him was given the key to the pit of the abyss.
2 He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
3 And out of the smoke locusts came forth onto the earth, and authority was given to them such as the scorpions of the earth have.
4 They were told to do no harm to the grass of the earth or to anything green or to any tree, but only to those people who do not bear the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 And they were permitted, not to kill them, but to have them tormented for five months; and the torment they caused was like a scorpion's torment when it stings a person.
6 In those days men will look for death and not find it; they will yearn to die, and death will run away from them.
7 The locusts looked like horses equipped for war; on their heads were what seemed to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like men's faces.
8 They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like those of lions.
9 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the rumble of chariots with many horses racing into battle.
10 They have tails like those of scorpions, and there were stings in their tails; and their power was to injure men for five months.
11 Over them they have a king, the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, while in Greek he is called Apollyon.
12 The one woe has gone; see, two more woes are coming after these things.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a single voice from the four horns of the golden altar that stands before God,
14 telling the sixth angel, the one holding the trumpet, "Set free the four angels who are bound at the great river, the Euphrates."
15 So the four angels were set free, who had been kept ready for that hour and day and month and year, to kill a third of mankind.
16 The count of the cavalry armies was two myriads of myriads; I heard what their number was.
17 And in the vision I saw the horses, and those sitting on them, in this way: they had breastplates fiery, hyacinth-colored and sulfurous; and the horses' heads were like lions' heads, and out of their mouths go fire and smoke and sulfur.
18 A third of mankind was killed by these three—by the fire, by the smoke, and by the sulfur issuing from their mouths.
19 For the power they have is in their mouth and in their tails; their tails resemble serpents and have heads, and with these they do injury.
20 And the rest of mankind, those not killed by these plagues, did not turn in repentance from the works of their hands so as to stop worshiping demons and the idols of gold, of silver, of bronze, of stone and of wood, which are unable to see or hear or walk.
21 Nor did they repent of their killings, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their stealing.