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And the fifth angel sounded; and I saw a star fallen out of the heaven unto the earth, and there was given him the key of the pit of the abyss.
2
And he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke arose out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace: and the sun was darkened and the air by the smoke of the pit.
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And out of the smoke came forth locusts unto the earth, and there was given them power as the scorpions of the earth have power.
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And it was said to them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree, but the men which have not the seal of God on their foreheads.
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And 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.
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And in those days shall men seek death and shall in no wise find it, and shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.
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And the likenesses of the locusts were like horses prepared for war, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as the faces of men.
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And they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as of lions.
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And they had breastplates as iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was as a sound of chariots of many horses running unto war.
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And they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails was their power to hurt men five months.
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They have a king over them, the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon; and in the Greek he hath the name Apollyon.
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The first woe is past; behold, there come two woes more after these things.
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And the sixth angel sounded; and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God,
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saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.
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And the four angels were loosed that were prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they might slay the third of men.
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And the number of the armies of the cavalry was two myriads of myriads: I heard the number of them.
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And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those that sat on them, having breastplates of fire and of jacinth and of brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceeded fire and smoke and brimstone.
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By these three plagues were killed the third of men, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone that proceeded out of their mouths.
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For the power of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails: for their tails are like serpents and have heads; and with them they do hurt.
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And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and 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 repented not of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their fornication nor of their thefts.