Then the ^afifth angel sounded, and I saw a ^bstar from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the ^ckey of the ^1dbottomless pit was given to him. 2 He opened the ¹bottomless pit, and ^asmoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and ^bthe sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit. 3 Then out of the smoke came ^alocusts ¹upon the earth, and power was given them, as the ^bscorpions of the earth have power. 4 They were told not to ^ahurt the ^bgrass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the ^cseal of God on their foreheads. 5 And ¹they were not permitted to kill ²anyone, but to torment for ^afive months; and their torment was like the torment of a ^bscorpion when it ³stings a man. 6 And in those days ^amen will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

7 The ^1aappearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. 8 They had hair like the hair of women, and their ^ateeth were like the teeth of lions. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the ^asound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle. 10 They have tails like ^ascorpions, and stings; and in their ^btails is their power to hurt men for ^cfive months. 11 They have as king over them, the angel of the ^aabyss; his name in ^bHebrew is ^1cAbaddon, and in the Greek he has the name ²Apollyon.

12 ^aThe first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

13 Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard ¹a voice from the ²four ^ahorns of the ^bgolden altar which is before God, 14 one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the ^afour angels who are bound at the ^bgreat river Euphrates.” 15 And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were ^areleased, so that they would kill a ^bthird of ¹mankind. 16 The number of the armies of the horsemen was ^atwo hundred million; ^bI heard the number of them. 17 And ¹this is how I saw ^ain the vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of ^2bbrimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and ^cout of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and ^3dbrimstone. 18 A ^athird of ¹mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the ^bfire and the smoke and the ²brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm.

20 The rest of ¹mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^adid not repent of ^bthe works of their hands, so as not to ^cworship demons, and ^dthe idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; 21 and they ^adid not repent of their murders nor of their ^bsorceries nor of their ^cimmorality nor of their thefts.