Revelation 9

1 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. (Abyssos g12)

Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet. I saw a star from heaven that had fallen to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. (Abyssos g12)

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. (Abyssos g12)

He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the shaft like smoke from a huge furnace. The sun and the air turned dark by the smoke pouring out of the shaft. (Abyssos g12)

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:

Out of the smoke locusts came on the earth, and they were given power like that of scorpions on the earth.

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.

They were told not to damage the grass on the earth or any green plant or tree, but only the people who did not have the seal 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.

They were not given permission to kill those people, but only to torture them for five months. Their agony would be like the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a person.

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.

In those days people will seek death, but will not find it. They will greatly desire to die, but death will flee 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.

The locusts looked like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces.

8 And they had hair as the hair of women; and their teeth were as lions:

They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.

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.

They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the sound made by many chariots and horses running into 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

They had tails with stingers like scorpions; in their tails they had power to harm people for five months.

11 A king, the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans, (Abyssos g12)

They had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew was Abaddon, and in Greek he had the name Apollyon. (Abyssos g12)

12 One woe is past, and behold there come yet two woes more hereafter.

The first woe is past. Look! After this there are still two disasters to come.

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,

The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is present before God.

14 Saying to the sixth angel, who had the trumpet: Loose the four angels, who are bound in the great river Euphrates.

The voice said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River.”

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.

The four angels who had been prepared for that hour, that day, that month, and that year, were released to kill a third of mankind.

16 And the number of the army of horsemen was twenty thousand times ten thousand. And I heard the number of them.

The number of the soldiers on horseback was 200,000,000. I heard their number.

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.

This is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode on them: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue and sulfurous yellow. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur.

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.

A third of the people were killed by these three plagues: the fire, smoke, and sulfur that came 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.

For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails—for their tails were like snakes, and they had heads with which they inflicted wounds on people.

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:

The rest of mankind, those who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the deeds they had done, nor did they stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—things that cannot see, hear, or walk.

21 Neither did they penance from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their fornication, nor from their thefts.

Neither did they repent of their murders, their sorcery, their sexual immorality or their acts of theft.