¶ And the fifth¹ angel sounded, and I saw a star² fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him³ was given the key of the bottomless⁴ pit.

And he opened the bottomless pit; and there⁵ arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun⁶ and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

And there came out of the smoke locusts⁷ upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as⁸ the scorpions of the earth have power.

And it was commanded them that they⁹ should not hurt¹⁰ the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but¹¹ only those men which¹² have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

And to them it was¹³ given that they should not¹⁴ kill them, but that they should be¹⁵ tormented five¹⁶ months: and their¹⁷ torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

And in those days shall men¹⁸ seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

And the shapes¹⁹ of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces²⁰ were as the faces of men.

And they had hair²¹ as the hair of women, and their²² teeth were as the teeth of lions.

And they had²³ breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the²⁴ sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

¶ And they had tails²⁵ like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

And they had²⁶ a king over them, which is the angel²⁷ of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon²⁸, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

One woe²⁹ is past; and, behold, there come two³⁰ woes more hereafter.

¶ And the sixth³¹ angel sounded, and I heard a voice³² from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Saying to the³³ sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose³⁴ the four angels which are bound in the great³⁵ river Euphrates.

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for³⁶ an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to³⁷ slay the third part of men.

And the number³⁸ of the army of the horsemen³⁹ were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard⁴⁰ the number of them.

And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having⁴¹ breastplates of fire, and of jacinth⁴², and brimstone⁴³: and the heads of the horses were as the⁴⁴ heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

By these three was the third⁴⁵ part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails⁴⁶: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

¶ And the⁴⁷ rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet⁴⁸ repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship⁴⁹ devils, and idols⁵⁰ of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Neither repented they of their murders⁵¹, nor of their sorceries⁵², nor of their fornication⁵³, nor of their thefts.