²¹ They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and ^(A)curse ^[a]their king and their God, and look upward.

⁹ And men were scorched with great heat, and they ^(A)blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; ^(B)and they did not repent ^(C)and give Him glory.

Fifth Bowl: Darkness and Pain

¹⁰ Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl ^(D)on the throne of the beast, ^(E)and his kingdom became full of darkness; ^(F)and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain. ¹¹ They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.

²⁰ But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^(A)did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship ^(B)demons, ^(C)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 murders ^(D)or their ^[a]sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

⁶ By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.