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chapter 9
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And
the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, and I saw a star fall from heaven upon the
earth, and there was given to him the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of
the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were
darkened with the smoke of the pit.
3 And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts
upon the earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have
power:
4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt
the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree: but only the men who
have not the sign of God on their foreheads.
5 And it was given unto them that they should not kill
them; but that they should torment them five months: and their torment was as
the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man.
6 And in those days men shall seek death, and shall not
find it: and they shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them.
7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses
prepared unto battle: and on their heads were, as it were, crowns like gold:
and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women; and their
teeth were as lions:
9 And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron,
and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses
running to battle.
10 And they had tails like to scorpions, and there were
stings in their tails; and their power was to hurt men five months. And they
had over them
11 A king, the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name
in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans,
12 One woe is past, and behold there come yet two woes
more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded the trumpet: and I heard
a voice from the four horns of the great altar, which is before the eyes of
God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel, who had the trumpet:
Loose the four angels, who are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared
for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year: for to kill the third part of
men.
16 And the number of the army of horsemen was twenty
thousand times ten thousand. And I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision: and they
that sat on them, had breastplates of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone,
and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and from their mouths
proceeded fire, and smoke, and brimstone.
18 And by these three plagues was slain the third part
of men, by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone, which issued out of
their mouths.
19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and
in their tails. For, their tails are like to serpents, and have heads: and with
them they hurt.
20 And the rest of the men, who were not slain by these
plagues, did not do penance from the works of their hands, that they should not
adore devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood,
which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither did they penance from their murders, nor
from their sorceries, nor from their fornication, nor from their thefts.
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