⁷ The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle.^(A) On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.^{(B) 8} Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.^{(C) 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.^{(D) 10} They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.^{(E) 11} They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss,^(F) whose name in Hebrew^(G) is Abaddon^(H) and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).

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