^{1 Ref} And at the sounding of the fifth angel I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the great deep.

^{2 Ref} And he made the great deep open and a smoke went up from it, like the smoke of a great oven; and the sun and the air were made dark because of the smoke.

^{3 Ref} And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions.

^{4 Ref} And they were ordered to do no damage to the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only to such men as have not the mark of God on their brows.

^{5 Ref} And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.

^{6 Ref} And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.

^{7 Ref} And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

^{8 Ref} And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

^{9 Ref} And they had breastplates like iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of carriages, like an army of horses rushing to the fight.

^{10 Ref} And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.

^{11 Ref} They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.

^{12 Ref} The first Trouble is past: see, there are still two Troubles to come.

^{13 Ref} And at the sounding of the sixth angel a voice came to my ears from the horns of the gold altar which is before God,

^{14 Ref} Saying to the sixth angel who had the horn, Make free the four angels who are chained at the great river Euphrates.

^{15 Ref} And the four angels were made free, who were ready for the hour and day and month and year, that they might put to death a third part of men.

^{16 Ref} And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: the number of them came to my ears.

^{17 Ref} And so I saw the horses in the vision, and those who were seated on them, having breastplates of fire and glass and of burning stone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and a smell of burning.

^{18 Ref} By these evils a third part of men was put to death, by the fire, and the smoke, and the burning smell which came out of their mouths.

^{19 Ref} For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails: because their tails are like snakes, and have heads, and with them they give wounds.

^{20 Ref} And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:

^{21 Ref} And they had no regret for putting men to death, or for their use of secret arts, or for the evil desires of the flesh, or for taking the property of others.

^{1 Ref} And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,

^{2 Ref} and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.

^{3 Ref} And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority,

^{4 Ref} and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but -- the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads,

^{5 Ref} and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment `is' as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;

^{6 Ref} and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.

^{7 Ref} And the likenesses of the locusts `are' like to horses made ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men,

^{8 Ref} and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as `those' of lions,

^{9 Ref} and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings `is' as the noise of chariots of many horses running to battle;

^{10 Ref} and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority `is' to injure men five months;

^{11 Ref} and they have over them a king -- the messenger of the abyss -- a name `is' to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he hath a name, Apollyon.

^{12 Ref} The first wo did go forth, lo, there come yet two woes after these things.

^{13 Ref} And the sixth messenger did sound, and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God,

^{14 Ref} saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, `Loose the four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates;'

^{15 Ref} and loosed were the four messengers, who have been made ready for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they may kill the third of men;

^{16 Ref} and the number of the forces of the horsemen `is' two myriads of myriads, and I heard the number of them.

^{17 Ref} And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting upon them, having breastplates of fire, and jacinth, and brimstone; and the heads of the horses `are' as heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceedeth fire, and smoke, and brimstone;

^{18 Ref} by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth,

^{19 Ref} for their authorities are in their mouth, and in their tails, for their tails `are' like serpents, having heads, and with them they do injure;

^{20 Ref} and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,

^{21 Ref} yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.