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1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
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And the fifth angel blew the trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth, and the key of the shaft of the abyss was given to him.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
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And he opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke went up from the shaft like smoke from a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft.
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.
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And out of the smoke locusts came to the earth, and power was given to them like 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 only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
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And it was told to them that they should not damage the grass of the earth or any green [plant] or any tree, except those people who do not have the seal of God on 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.
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And it was granted to them that they should not kill them, but that they would be tormented five months, and their torment [is] like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a person.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
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And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and 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.
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And the appearance of the locusts [was] like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads [were something] like crowns similar in appearance to gold, and their faces [were] like men's faces,
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
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and they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like [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.
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and they had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings [was] like the sound of many {horse-drawn chariots} running into battle.
10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
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And they have tails similar in appearance to scorpions, and stings, and their power to injure people [for] five months [is] in their tails.
11 And 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 Apollyon.
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They have [as] king over them the angel of the abyss, {whose name} in Hebrew [is] Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
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The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still coming after these [things].
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
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And the sixth angel blew the trumpet, and I heard one voice from the horns of the golden altar [that is] before God
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
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saying to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who have been bound at the great river Euphrates!"
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
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And the four angels who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year were released, in order that they should kill a third of humanity.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
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And the number of the troops of the cavalry [was] {two hundred million}; 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.
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And in this way I saw the horses in the vision, and those seated on them, who had fiery [red] and hyacinth-colored and sulphurous [yellow] breastplates, and the heads of the horses [were] like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and sulphur.
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
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By these three plagues a third of humanity was killed--by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur that came out of their mouths.
19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
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For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails [are] similar in appearance to snakes, having heads, and with them they cause injury.
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:
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And the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, {in order not to worship} the demons and the gold and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols, which are able neither to see nor to hear nor to walk,
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
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and they did not repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual immorality or of their thefts.
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