1And the fifth angel sounded , and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth : and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss. 2And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up 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 . 3And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth ; and power was given them , as the scorpions of the earth have power . 4And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth , neither any green thing , neither any tree , but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads . 5And it was given them 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 it striketh a man . 6And in those days men shall seek death , and shall in no wise find it ; and they shall desire to die , and death fleeth from them . 7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war ; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold , and their faces were as men ’s faces . 8And they had hair as the hair of women , and their teeth were as the teeth of lions . 9And they had breastplates , as it were breastplates of iron ; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to war . 10And they have tails like unto scorpions , and stings ; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months . 11They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek tongue he hath the name Apollyon. 12The first Woe is past: behold , there come yet two Woes hereafter .
The Sixth Trumpet: The Army from the East
13And the sixth angel sounded , and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God , 14one saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet , Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates . 15And the four angels were loosed , that had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year , that they should kill the third part of men . 16And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand : I heard the number of them . 17And thus I saw the horses in the vision , and them that sat on them , having breastplates as of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone : and the heads of the horses are as the heads of lions ; and out of their mouths proceedeth fire and smoke and brimstone . 18By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone , which proceeded out of their mouths . 19For the power of the horses is in their mouth , and in their tails : for their tails are like unto serpents , and have heads ; and with them they hurt. 20And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues , repented not of the works of their hands , that they should not worship demons , and the idols of gold , and of silver, and of brass , and of stone , and of wood ; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk : 21and they repented not of their murders , nor of their sorceries , nor of their fornication , nor of their thefts .