Revelation 9:1-12

Revised Geneva Translation

9 And the fifth angel blew the trumpet. And I saw a star fall from Heaven to the Earth. And to him was given the key to the bottomless pit.

² And he opened the bottomless pit. And there arose the smoke of the pit; the smoke of a great furnace. And the Sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

³ And there came locusts upon the Earth, out of the smoke. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the Earth have power.

⁴ And they were commanded not to hurt the grass of the Earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree; but only those men who do not have the seal of God in their foreheads.

⁵ And they were commanded not to kill them; but that they should be tormented for five months, and that their pain should be as the pain that comes from a scorpion when he has stung a man.

⁶ Therefore, in those days, man shall seek death and shall not find it; and shall desire to die and death shall flee from them.

⁷ And the appearance of the locusts was like that of horses prepared for battle. And on their heads were something like crowns, like gold. And their faces were like the faces of men.

⁸ And they had hair as the hair of women. And their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

⁹ And they had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. And the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots when many horses run into battle.

¹⁰ And they had tails like scorpions. And there were stings in their tails with power to hurt man for five months.

¹¹ And they have a king over them - the angel of the bottomless pit - whose name in Hebrew is ‘Abaddon’. And in Greek, he is named ‘Apollyon’; that is, ‘destroying’.

¹² One woe is past! And behold, yet two more woes come after this!