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Revelation 9
⁵ They were told not to kill them but to torture them for five months with pain like the pain of a scorpion sting.
⁶ In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them!
⁷ The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. They had what looked like gold crowns on their heads, and their faces looked like human faces.
⁸ They had hair like women’s hair and teeth like the teeth of a lion.
⁹ They wore armor made of iron, and their wings roared like an army of chariots rushing into battle.
¹⁰ They had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five months they had the power to torment people.
¹¹ Their king is the angel from the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon—the Destroyer.
¹² The first terror is past, but look, two more terrors are coming!
¹³ Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice speaking from the four horns of the gold altar that stands in the presence of God.
¹⁴ And the voice said to the sixth angel who held the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River.”
¹⁵ Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were turned loose to kill one-third of all the people on earth.