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1 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit;
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And at the sounding of the fifth angel I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the great deep.
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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And he made the great deep open and a smoke went up from it, like the smoke of a great oven; and the sun and the air were made dark because of the smoke.
3 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given authority like the authority of scorpions of the earth.
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And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions.
4 They were told not to damage the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
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And they were ordered to do no damage to the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only to such men as have not the mark of God on their brows.
5 They were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings someone.
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And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.
6 And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
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And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.
7 In appearance the locusts were like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,
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And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth;
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And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9 they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.
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And they had breastplates like iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of carriages, like an army of horses rushing to the fight.
10 They have tails like scorpions, with stingers, and in their tails is their power to harm people for five months.
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And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.
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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They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.
12 The first woe has passed. There are still two woes to come.
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The first Trouble is past: see, there are still two Troubles to come.
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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And at the sounding of the sixth angel a voice came to my ears from the horns of the gold altar which is before 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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Saying to the sixth angel who had the horn, Make free the four angels who are chained at the great river Euphrates.
15 So the four angels were released, who had been held ready for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, to kill a third of humankind.
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And the four angels were made free, who were ready for the hour and day and month and year, that they might put to death a third part of men.
16 The number of the troops of cavalry was two hundred million; I heard their number.
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And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: the number of them came to my ears.
17 And this was how I saw the horses in my vision: the riders wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur; 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 so I saw the horses in the vision, and those who were seated on them, having breastplates of fire and glass and of burning stone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and a smell of burning.
18 By these three plagues a third of humankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
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By these evils a third part of men was put to death, by the fire, and the smoke, and the burning smell which came out of their mouths.
19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they inflict harm.
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For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails: because their tails are like snakes, and have heads, and with them they give wounds.
20 The rest of humankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands or 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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And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:
21 And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their fornication or their thefts.
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And they had no regret for putting men to death, or for their use of secret arts, or for the evil desires of the flesh, or for taking the property of others.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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