The Revelation to Yochanan, Chapter 9
{9:1} The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which
had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to
him. {9:2} He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of
the pit, like the smoke from a[1] burning furnace. The sun and the air
were darkened because of the smoke from the pit. {9:3} Then out of the
smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as
the scorpions of the earth have power. {9:4} They were told that they
should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing,
neither any tree, but only those people who don't have God's seal on
their foreheads. {9:5} They were given power not to kill them, but to
torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a
scorpion, when it strikes a person. {9:6} In those days people will
seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and
death will flee from them. {9:7} The shapes of the locusts were like
horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden
crowns, and their faces were like people's faces. {9:8} They had hair
like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions. {9:9}
They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their
wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to
war. {9:10} They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In
their tails they have power to harm men for five months. {9:11} They
have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is
[2>]"Abaddon,"[<2] but in Greek, he has the name [3>]"Apollyon."[<3]
{9:12} The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming
after this.
{9:13} The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of
the golden altar which is before God, {9:14} saying to the sixth angel
who had one [4>]shofar[<4], "Free the four angels who are bound at the
great river Euphrates!"
{9:15} The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that
hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of
mankind. {9:16} The number of the armies of the horsemen was [5>]two
hundred million[<5]. I heard the number of them. {9:17} Thus I saw the
horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates
of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of
lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur. {9:18} By
these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the
smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths. {9:19} For
the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For
their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they
harm. {9:20} The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these
plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't
worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass,
and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
{9:21} They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their
[6>]sorceries,[<6] nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.
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Footnotes:
[1] {9:2} TR adds "great"
[2] {9:11} "Abaddon" is a Hebrew word that means ruin, destruction, or
the place of destruction
[3] {9:11} "Apollyon" means "Destroyer."
[4] {9:14} or, trumpet
[5] {9:16} literally, "ten thousands of ten thousands"
[6] {9:21} The word for "sorceries" (pharmakeia) also implies the use
of potions, poisons, and drugs
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