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1 | 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. |
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2 | 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. |
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3 | 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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4 | 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. |
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5 | 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. |
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6 | And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it;
and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. |
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7 | 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. |
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8 | And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were
as the teeth of lions. |
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9 | 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. |
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10 | 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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11 | 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. |
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12 | One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more
hereafter. |
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13 | And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four
horns of the golden altar which is before God, |
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14 | 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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15 | 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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16 | 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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17 | 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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18 | 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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19 | 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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20 | 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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21 | Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their
sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. |
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