Revelation 9

Moffatt(i) 1 The fifth angel blew, and I saw a Star which had dropped from heaven to earth; he was given the key of the pit of the abyss, 2 and he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke poured out of the pit, like the smoke of a huge furnace, till the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit. 3 And out of the smoke came locusts on the earth; they were granted power like the power wielded by scorpions on earth, 4 but they were told not to harm the grass on earth nor any green thing nor any tree, only such human beings as had not the seal of God upon their foreheads; 5 these they were allowed, not to kill but to torture, for five months — and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a man. 6 In those days men will seek death, but they will not find it: they will long to die, but death flies from them. 7 The appearance of the locusts resembled horses armed for battle; on their heads were sort of crowns like gold; their faces were like human faces, 8 their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' fangs; 9 they had scales like iron coats of mail; the whirring of their wings was like the noise of many chariots rushing to battle; 10 their tails and their stings were like scorpions', and their power of hurting men for five months lay in their tails; 11 they had a king over them, the angel of the abyss — his Hebrew name is Abaddon, but in Greek he is called Apollyon. 12 The first woe has passed: two woes are still to come. 13 Then the sixth angel blew; and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, 14 telling the sixth angel with the trumpet, "Let loose the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." 15 So the four angels were unloosed, who had been kept ready for that hour and day and month and year, to kill the third of men. 16 And the number of the troops of their cavalry was two hundred millions (I heard what was their number). 17 And this is how the horses and their riders looked in my vision: they wore coats of mail red as fire, dark-blue as jacinth and yellow as smoke; the horses' heads were like lions' heads, and from their mouths poured fire and smoke and brimstone. 18 By these three plagues the third of men were killed, by the fire, the smoke, and the brimstone, that poured out of their mouths; 19 for the power of the horses lies in their mouths — and also in their tails (their tails are like serpents, they have heads, and it is with their heads that they hurt). 20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshipping daemons and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which cannot either see or hear or stir; 21 nor did they repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual vice or of their thefts.