1 And the fifth angel blew the trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth, and the key of the shaft of the abyss was given to him.
2 And he opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke went up from the shaft like smoke from a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft.
3 And out of the smoke locusts came to the earth, and power was given to them like the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And it was told to them that they should not damage the grass of the earth or any green
5 And it was granted to them that they should not kill them, but that they would be tormented five months, and their torment
6 And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.
7 And the appearance of the locusts
8 and they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like
9 and they had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings
10 And they have tails similar in appearance to scorpions, and stings, and their power to injure people
11 They have
12 The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still coming after these
13 And the sixth angel blew the trumpet, and I heard one voice from the four horns of the golden altar
14 saying to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who have been bound at the great river Euphrates!”
15 And the four angels who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year were released, in order that they should kill a third of humanity.
16 And the number of the troops of the cavalry
17 And in this way I saw the horses in the vision, and those seated on them, who had fiery
18 By these three plagues a third of humanity was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur that came out of their mouths.
19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails
20 And the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands,
21 and they did not repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual immorality or of their thefts.