⁴ They were told not to harm^(A) the grass of the earth or any plant or tree,^(B) but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.^{(C) 5} They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months.^(D) And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion^(E) when it strikes. ⁶ During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.^(F)

⁷ The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle.^(G) On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.^{(H) 8} Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.^{(I) 9} They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.^{(J) 10} They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.^{(K) 11} They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss,^(L) whose name in Hebrew^(M) is Abaddon^(N) and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).

¹² The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.^(O)

¹³ The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns^(P) of the golden altar that is before God.^(Q)