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of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was with the smoke of the pit.
burnt up. 3 And from the smoke of the pit there came
8 And the second angel sounded the trumpet: out locusts upon the earth. And power was
and as it were a great mountain, burning with given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have
fire, was cast into the sea, and the third part of power:
the sea became blood: 4 And it was commanded them that they
9 And the third part of those creatures died, should not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any
which had life in the sea, and the third part of green thing, nor any tree: but only the men who
the ships was destroyed. have not the sign of God on their foreheads.
10 And the third angel sounded the trumpet, 5 And it was given unto them that they should
and a great star fell from heaven, burning as it not kill them; but that they should torment them
were a torch, and it fell on the third part of the five months: and their torment was as the tor-
rivers, and upon the fountains of waters: ment of a scorpion when he striketh a man.
11 And the name of the star is called Worm- 6 And in those days men shall seek death, and
wood. And the third part of the waters became shall not find it: and they shall desire to die, and
wormwood; and many men died of the waters, death shall fly from them.
because they were made bitter. 7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto
12 And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet, horses prepared unto battle: and on their heads
and the third part of the sun was smitten, and were, as it were, crowns like gold: and their faces
the third part of the moon, and the third part were as the faces of men.
of the stars, so that the third part of them was 8 And they had hair as the hair of women; and
darkened, and the day did not shine for a third their teeth were as lions:
part of it, and the night in like manner. 9 And they had breastplates as breastplates of
13 And I beheld, and heard the voice of one iron, and the noise of their wings was as the noise
eagle flying through the midst of heaven, saying of chariots and many horses running to battle.
with a loud voice: Woe, woe, woe to the inhab- 10 And they had tails like to scorpions, and
there were stings in their tails; and their power
itants of the earth: by reason of the rest of the
voices of the three angels, who are yet to sound was to hurt men five months. And they had over
them
the trumpet.
11 A king, the angel of the bottomless pit;
whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek
Chapter 9 Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans,
12 One woe is past, and behold there come
And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, and I yet two woes more hereafter.
saw a star fall from heaven upon the earth, and 13 And the sixth angel sounded the trumpet:
there was given to him the key of the bottomless and I heard a voice from the four horns of the
pit. great altar, which is before the eyes of God,
2 And he opened the bottomless pit: and the 14 Saying to the sixth angel, who had the
smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great trumpet: Loose the four angels, who are bound
furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened in the great river Euphrates.