‏ Revelation of John 9

Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, ^a“Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”

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2And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and ^bI saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given ^cthe key to the shaft of ^dthe bottomless pit. ▼

▼Greek  the abyss; also verses 2, 11

3He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft ^frose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and ^gthe sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. 4Then from the smoke came ^hlocusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. 5They were told ⁱnot to harm ^jthe grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have ^kthe seal of God on their foreheads. 6They were allowed to torment them ^lfor five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. 7And in those days ^mpeople will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.

8 ⁿIn appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: ^oon their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were ^plike human faces, 9their hair like women’s hair, and ^qtheir teeth like lions’ teeth; 10they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was ^rlike the noise of many chariots with ^shorses rushing into battle. 11They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people ^tfor five months is in their tails. 12They have ^uas king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is ^vAbaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon. ▼

▼ Abaddon means destruction;  Apollyon means destroyer

13 ^xThe first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.

14Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from ^ythe four horns of the golden altar before God, 15saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release ^zthe four angels who are bound at ^aathe great river Euphrates.” 16So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released ^abto kill a third of mankind. 17The number of ^acmounted troops was ^adtwice ten thousand times ten thousand; ^aeI heard their number. 18And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire ▼

▼Greek hyacinth

and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were ^aglike lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. 19By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 20For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.

21The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^ahdid not repent of ^aithe works of their hands nor give up worshiping ^ajdemons ^akand idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,