Fifth Trumpet: The Locusts from the Bottomless Pit
1 Then the fifth angel sounded:And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key tothe bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So thesun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.
3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power,as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 They were commandednot to harmthe grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not havethe seal of God on their foreheads.
5 And they were not givenauthorityto kill them,but to torment themforfive months. Their tormentwaslike the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
6 In those daysmen will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
7 The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle.On their heads were crowns of something like gold,and their faceswerelike the faces of men.
8 They had hair like women’s hair, andtheir teeth were like lions’teeth.
9 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wingswaslike the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle.
10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their powerwasto hurt men five months.
11 And they had as king over themthe angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in HebrewisAbaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
12 One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.
Sixth Trumpet: The Angels from the Euphrates
13 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of thegolden altar which is before God,
14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are boundat the great river Euphrates.”
15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill athird of mankind.
16 Nowthe number of the armyof the horsemenwastwo hundred million;I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow;and the heads of the horseswerelike the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone.
18 By these threeplaguesa third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.
19 For their power is in their mouth and in their tails;for their tailsarelike serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.
20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues,did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worshipdemons,and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.
21 And they did not repent of their murdersor their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.