The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Revelation 09
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.
2 He opened the pit of the abyss, and
smoke went up out of the pit, like the
smoke from a† burning furnace. The sun
and the air were darkened because of the
smoke from the pit.
3 Then out of the smoke came locusts on
the earth, and power was given to them, as
the scorpions of the earth have power.
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.
5 They were given power, not to kill
them, butto tormentthem for five months.
Their torment was like the torment of a
scorpion when it strikes a person.
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.
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.
8 They had hair like women’s hair, and
their teeth were like those of lions.
9 They had breastplates like breastplates
of iron. The sound of their wings was
like the sound of many chariots and horses
rushing to war.
10 They have tails like those of scorpions,
with stingers. In their tails they have
power to harm men for five months.
11 They have over them as king the angel
of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is
“Abaddon”,‡ but in Greek, he has
the name “Apollyon”.§
12 The first woe is past. Behold, there are
still two woes coming after this.
13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a
voice from the horns of the golden altar
which is before God,
14 saying to the sixth angel who had the
trumpet, “Free the four angels who are
bound at the great river Euphrates!”
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.
16 The number of the armies of the horsemen
was two hundred million.† Iheard the
number of them.
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
horses’ heads resembled lions’
heads. Out of their mouths
proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.
18 By these three plagues, one third of
mankind was killed: by thefire, the smoke,
and the sulfur, which proceeded out of
their mouths.
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.
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’t see, hear,
or walk.
21 They didn’t repent of their murders,
their sorceries,‡ their sexual immorality,
or their thefts.