Revelation 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.
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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.
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And there came out of the smoke locusts
upon the earth: Ex. 10.12-15 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. Ezek. 9.4
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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.
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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. Job. 3.21
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And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; Joel 2.4 and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold,
and their faces were as the faces of men.
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And they had hair as the hair of women,
and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. Joel 1.6
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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 Joel 2.5 of many horses running to battle.
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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 Abad'don, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apol'ly-on.
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One woe is past; and, behold,
there come two woes more hereafter.
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And the sixth angel sounded, and I
heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar Ex.
30.1-3 which is before God,
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saying to the sixth angel which had the
trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river
Euphra'tes.
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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: Ps. 115.4-7 ; 135.15-17 · Dan. 5.4
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neither repented they of their murders,
nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their
thefts.
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