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Revelation 9

The Fifth Trumpet--the Bottomless Pit

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Then the  afifth angel sounded, and I saw a  bstar from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the  ckey of the  1 dbottomless pit was given to him.

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He opened the  1bottomless pit, and  asmoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and  bthe sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

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Then out of the smoke came  alocusts  1upon the earth, and power was given them, as the  bscorpions of the earth have power.

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They were told not to  ahurt the  bgrass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the  cseal of God on their foreheads.

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And  1they were not permitted to kill  2anyone, but to torment for  afive months; and their torment was like the torment of a  bscorpion when it  3stings a man.

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And in those days  amen will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

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The  1 aappearance 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.

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They had hair like the hair of women, and their  ateeth were like the teeth of lions.

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They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the  asound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle.

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They have tails like  ascorpions, and stings; and in their  btails is their power to hurt men for  cfive months.

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They have as king over them, the angel of the  aabyss; his name in  bHebrew is  1 cAbaddon, and in the Greek he has the name  2Apollyon.

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 aThe first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

The Sixth Trumpet--Army from the East

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Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard  1a voice from the  2four  ahorns of the  bgolden altar which is before God,

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one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the  afour angels who are bound at the  bgreat river Euphrates."

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And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were  areleased, so that they would kill a  bthird of  1mankind.

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The number of the armies of the horsemen was  atwo hundred million;  bI heard the number of them.

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And  1this is how I saw  ain the vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of  2 bbrimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and  cout of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and  2 bbrimstone.

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A  athird of  1mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the  bfire and the smoke and the  2brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths.

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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.

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The rest of  1mankind, who were not killed by these plagues,  adid not repent of  bthe works of their hands, so as not to  cworship demons, and  dthe idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

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and they  adid not repent of their murders nor of their  bsorceries nor of their  cimmorality nor of their thefts.



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