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The Fifth Trumpet—the Bottomless Pit

¹ Then the ^(C1)fifth angel sounded, and I saw a ^(C2)star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the ^(C3)key of the ^(F1)(C4)bottomless pit was given to him.² He opened the ^(F1)bottomless pit, and ^(C1)smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and ^(C2)the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.³ Then out of the smoke came ^(C1)locusts ^(F1)upon the earth, and power was given them, as the ^(C2)scorpions of the earth have power.⁴ They were told not to ^(C1)hurt the ^(C2)grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the ^(C3)seal of God on their foreheads.⁵ And ^(F1)they were not permitted to kill ^(F2)anyone, but to torment for ^(C1)five months; and their torment was like the torment of a ^(C2)scorpion when it ^(F3)stings a man.⁶ And in those days ^(C1)men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

⁷ The ^(F1)(C1)appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.⁸ They had hair like the hair of women, and their ^(C1)teeth were like the teeth of lions.⁹ They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the ^(C1)sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle.¹⁰ They have tails like ^(C1)scorpions, and stings; and in their ^(C2)tails is their power to hurt men for ^(C3)five months.¹¹ They have as king over them, the angel of the ^(C1)abyss; his name in ^(C2)Hebrew is ^(F1)(C3)Abaddon, and in the Greek he has the name ^(F2)Apollyon.

^12 (C1)The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

The Sixth Trumpet—Army from the East

¹³ Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard ^(F1)a voice from the ^(F2)four ^(C1)horns of the ^(C2)golden altar which is before God,¹⁴ one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the ^(C1)four angels who are bound at the ^(C2)great river Euphrates."¹⁵ And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were ^(C1)released, so that they would kill a ^(C2)third of ^(F1)mankind.¹⁶ The number of the armies of the horsemen was ^(C1)two hundred million; ^(C2)I heard the number of them.¹⁷ And ^(F1)this is how I saw ^(C1)in the vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of ^(F2)(C2)brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and ^(C3)out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and ^(F2)(C2)brimstone.¹⁸ A ^(C1)third of ^(F1)mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the ^(C2)fire and the smoke and the ^(F2)brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths.¹⁹ For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm.

²⁰ The rest of ^(F1)mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^(C1)did not repent of ^(C2)the works of their hands, so as not to ^(C3)worship demons, and ^(C4)the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;²¹ and they ^(C1)did not repent of their murders nor of their ^(C2)sorceries nor of their ^(C3)immorality nor of their thefts.