up a smoke
from the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the
air were darkened by the smoke of the pit. [9:3]And from the smoke
went out locusts on the earth, and power was given them like the power
which scorpions of the earth have. [9:4]And it was told them not to
injure the grass of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree, but the
men who had not the seal of God on their foreheads. [9:5]And it was
given them not to kill them, but to sting them five months; and their
sting was like the sting of a scorpion, when he strikes a man. [9:6]And
in those days men shall seek death and not find it, and shall desire to
die and death flee from them.

7 [9:7]And the forms of the locusts were like horses prepared for
battle, and upon their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and
their faces were like the faces of men, [9:8]and they had hair like the
hair of women, and their teeth were like [those] of lions, [9:9]and
they had cuirasses like steel cuirasses, and the sound of their wings
was like the sound of chariots with many horses running to battle.
[9:10]And they had tails like scorpions and stings, and in their tails
was their power to injure men five months. [9:11]They had over them a
king, an angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in
the Greek he is called Apollyon. [9:12]One woe has passed; behold,
there come yet two woes after this.

8 [9:13]And the sixth angel sounded; and I heard a voice from the four
horns of the golden altar before God, [9:14]saying to the sixth angel
who had the trumpet, Unbind the four angels bound by the river, the
great Euphrates. [9:15] And the four angels were unbound, who were
prepared for the hour, and day, and month, and year, to kill a third
part of men. [9:16]And the number of the armies of the horse was two
ten thousands of ten thousands; I heard the number of them. [9:17]And
thus I saw the horses in the vision and those sitting on them, having
cuirassess of fire, of hyacinth and of sulphur; and the heads of the
horses were like the heads of lions, and from their mouths proceeded
fire and smoke and sulphur.

9 [9:18]By these three plagues a third part of men were killed, by the
fire and the smoke and the sulphur which proceeded from their mouths.
[9:19]For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their
tails; for their tails were like serpents, having heads, and with them
they did injury. [9:20]And the rest of men, who were not killed