Revelation 9:7-17 (New International Version)
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The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle.1 On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.2
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Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.3
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They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.4
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They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.5
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They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss,6 whose name in Hebrew7 is Abaddon,8 and in Greek, Apollyon.a
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The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.9
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The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the hornsb10 of the golden altar that is before God.11
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It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels12 who are bound at the great river Euphrates."13
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And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released14 to kill a third15 of mankind.16
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The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.17
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The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths18 came fire, smoke and sulfur.19
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