Revelation 9

¹ And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star ^[1]fallen from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. ² And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a ^[2]burning furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. ³ And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. ⁴ And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but ^[3]those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. ⁵ And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. ⁶ And in those days shall men seek death, and shall ^[4]in no wise find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall 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 ^[5]golden crowns, and their faces were as the faces of men. ⁸ And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. ⁹ And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. ¹⁰ And they had tails like unto scorpions, and ^[6]stings; and in their tails they have power to hurt men five months. ^{11 [7]}They had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name ^[8]Apollyon. ¹² One woe is past; and behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

¹³ And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, ¹⁴ saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound ^[9]at the great river Euphrates. ¹⁵ And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared ^[10]for an hour, and ^[11]for a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. ¹⁶ And the number of the army of the ^[12]horse were a hundred thousand thousand: ^[13]I heard the number of them. ¹⁷ And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. ¹⁸ By these three ^[14]plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and ^[15]the smoke, and ^[16]the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. ¹⁹ For ^[17]the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. ²⁰ And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: ²¹ neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Notes

1. 9:1 fallen: or, fall ↩
2. 9:2 burning: TR great ↩
3. 9:4 those men: TR only those men ↩
4. 9:6 in no wise: TR not ↩
5. 9:7 golden crowns: TR crowns like gold ↩
6. 9:10 stings; and in their tails they have power to hurt: TR there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt ↩
7. 9:11 They had: Beza And they had ↩
8. 9:11 Apollyon: that is to say, a destroyer ↩
9. 9:14 at the great: or, in the great ↩
10. 9:15 for an hour: or, at an hour ↩
11. 9:15 for a day: TR omits for ↩
12. 9:16 horse were a hundred: TR horsemen were two hundred ↩
13. 9:16 I heard: TR and I heard ↩
14. 9:18 plagues: TR omits ↩
15. 9:18 the smoke: TR by the smoke ↩
16. 9:18 the brimstone: TR by the brimstone ↩
17. 9:19 the power of the horses: Scrivener their power ↩