Revelation, 9

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.

1. And the fifth angel blew his trumpet. I then saw a star fall from heaven to earth. The star was given the key to the depths of the abyss.

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.

2. He opened the abyss, and a cloud of smoke rose as if from a great furnace which darkened the sun and the air.

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.

3. Locusts came from this smoke and spread throughout the earth. They were given the same harmful power as the scorpions of the earth.

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.

4. Then they were told not to harm the meadows, the green grass or the trees, but only the people who do not bear the seal of God upon 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.

5. They were not to kill them, but only torture them for five months. This pain is like the sting of scorpions.

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.

6. In those days, people will look for death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude 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.

7. These locusts look like horses equipped for battle; they wear golden crowns on their heads, and their faces are like those of human beings.

8. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions.

8. Their hair is like women's hair, and their teeth like lion's teeth;

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.

9. their chests are like iron breastplates; and the noise of their wings like the roar of an army of chariots and horses rushing for 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.

10. Their tails are like those of scorpions and have stings; the power they have to torture 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.

11. These locusts have a king, who is the angel of the abyss whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon or Apollyon in Greek (Destruction in English).

12. One woe is past; [and], behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

12. The first woe has passed. Two others are to come.

13. And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

13. The sixth angel blew his trumpet. Then I heard a voice calling from the corners of the golden altar before God.

14. Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

14. It said to the sixth angel who had just sounded the trumpet, "Release the four angels chained at the banks of 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.

15. And the four angels were released who had been waiting for this year, this month, this day and this hour, ready to utterly destroy a third of humankind.

16. And the number of the army of the horsemen [were] two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

16. The number of the soldiers on horses was two hundred million; this is the number I heard.

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.

17. In my vision, I saw those horses and their riders: they wear breastplates the color of fire, hyacinth and sulfur. The heads of the horses look like lions' heads, and fire, smoke and sulfur come out of their mouths.

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.

18. Then a third of humankind was killed by these three plagues: fire, smoke and sulfur which the horses released through 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.

19. for the power of the horses was both in their mouths and in their tails. Their tails, in fact, look like serpents, and their heads are able to inflict injury as well.

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:

20. However, the rest of humankind who were not killed by these plagues did not renounce their way of life: they went on worshiping the demons, keeping those idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood that cannot see, hear or walk.

21. Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

21. No, they did not repent of their crimes, or their sorcery, or their sexual immorality or their theft.