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Chapter 9
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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. |
2
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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. |
3
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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. |
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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. |
5
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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. |
6
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And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not
find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee
from them. |
7
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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. |
8
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And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth
were as the teeth of lions. |
9
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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. |
10
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And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were
stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men
five months. |
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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. |
12
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One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more
hereafter. |
13
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And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from
the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, |
14
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Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose
the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. |
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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. |
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And the number of the army of the horsemen were two
hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of
them. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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: |
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Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their
sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. |
