The Fifth Trumpet

1And the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star having fallen out of heaven to the earth, and the key of the pit of the Abyss was given to it. 2And he opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, as the smoke of a great† furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

3And out of the smoke, locusts came out unto the earth, and authority was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have authority. 4And it was said to them that they will not harm the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men not having the seal of God on their foreheads. 5And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they will torment them five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it might strike a man. 6And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die, and death flees from them.

7And the likenesses of the locusts were like horses having been prepared for battle, and upon their heads were something like crowns, like gold, and their faces like the faces of men. 8And they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as those of lions. 9And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of many chariots of horses running into battle. 10And they have tails and stingers like scorpions, and in their tails is their authority to harm men for five months. 11They have a king over them, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon,† and in the Greek he has the name Apollyon.†

12The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes still are coming after these things.

The Sixth Trumpet

13And the sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard one voice from the four horns† of the golden altar before God, 14saying to the sixth angel, the one having the trumpet, “Release the four angels, those having been bound at the great river Euphrates.”

15And the four angels having been prepared for the hour and day and month and year were released, so that they might kill a third of mankind. 16And the number of the armies of the horsemen was two myriads of myriads;† I heard the number of them.

17And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting on them, having fiery and hyacinthine and sulfurous breastplates. And the heads of the horses were like heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and sulfur. 18From these three plagues† a third of mankind was killed by the fire and by the smoke and by the sulfur proceeding out of their mouths. 19For the authority of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents having heads, and with them they do harm.

20And the rest of the men who were not killed in these plagues did not even repent of the works of their hands so that they will not worship the demons and the golden and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols, which are able neither to see nor to hear nor to walk. 21And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.

Footnotes:

2 BYZ burning
11 Abaddon means Destruction.
11 Apollyon means Destroyer.
13 SBL, TH, and WH the horns
16 BYZ was myriads of myriads
18 TR things