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1 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
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Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
2 He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.
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When he opened it, smoke poured out as though from a huge furnace, and the sunlight and air turned dark from the smoke.
3 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth.
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Then locusts came from the smoke and descended on the earth, and they were given power to sting like scorpions.
4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
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They were told not to harm the grass or plants or trees, but only the people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.
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They were told not to kill them but to torture them for five months with pain like the pain of a scorpion sting.
6 And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
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In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them!
7 In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,
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The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. They had what looked like gold crowns on their heads, and their faces looked like human faces.
8 their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth;
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They had hair like women’s hair and teeth like the teeth of a lion.
9 they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.
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They wore armor made of iron, and their wings roared like an army of chariots rushing into battle.
10 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.
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They had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five months they had the power to torment people.
11 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
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Their king is the angel from the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is and in Greek, —the Destroyer.
12 The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.
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The first terror is past, but look, two more terrors are coming!
13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,
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Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice speaking from the four horns of the gold altar that stands in the presence of God.
14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
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And the voice said to the sixth angel who held the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River.”
15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
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Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were turned loose to kill one-third of all the people on earth.
16 The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number.
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I heard the size of their army, which was 200 million mounted troops.
17 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.
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And in my vision, I saw the horses and the riders sitting on them. The riders wore armor that was fiery red and dark blue and yellow. The horses had heads like lions, and fire and smoke and burning sulfur billowed from their mouths.
18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
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One-third of all the people on earth were killed by these three plagues—by the fire and smoke and burning sulfur that came from the mouths of the horses.
19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.
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Their power was in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails had heads like snakes, with the power to injure people.
20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,
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But the people who did not die in these plagues still refused to repent of their evil deeds and turn to God. They continued to worship demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—idols that can neither see nor hear nor walk!
21 nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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And they did not repent of their murders or their witchcraft or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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