³¹ And they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss.^(A)

9 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth.^(A) The star was given the key^(B) to the shaft of the Abyss.^(C)

² When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace.^(A) The sun and sky were darkened^(B) by the smoke from the Abyss.^(C)

¹⁰ They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.^(A)