REVELATION, IX.

and the name of the star is was darkened, and the day called Wormwood: and the shone not for a third part third part of the waters be- of it, and the night likewise. came wormwood; and many And I beheld, and heard men died of the waters, be- an angel flying through the cause they were made bitter. midst of heaven, saying with And the fourth angel sound- a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, ed, and the third part of the to the inhabiters of the earth sun was smitten, and the by reason of the other voices third part of the moon, and of the trumpet of the three the third part of the stars; angels, which are yet to so as the third part of them sound!

CHAPTER IX.

ANI

ND the fifth angel like gold, and their faces were sounded, and I saw a as the faces of men. And star fall from heaven unto they had hair as the hair of the earth and to him was women, and their teeth were given the key of the bottom- as the teeth of lions. And less pit. And he opened the they had breastplates, as it bottomless pit; and there were breastplates of iron; arose a smoke out of the pit, and the sound of their wings as the smoke of a great fur- was as the sound of chariots nace; and the sun and the of many horses running to air were darkened by reason battle. And they had tails of the smoke of the pit. And like unto scorpions, and there there came out of the smoke were stings in their tails: locusts upon the earth and and their power was to hurt unto them was given power, men five months. And they as the scorpions of the earth had a king over them, which have power. And it was is the angel of the bottom­commanded them that they less pit, whose name in the should not hurt the grass of Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, the earth, neither any green but in the Greek tongue thing, neither any tree; but hath his name Apollyon. One only those men which have woe is past; and, behold, not the seal of God in their there come two woes more foreheads. And to them it hereafter. And the sixth was given that they should angel sounded, and I heard not kill them, but that they a voice from the four horns should be tormented five of the golden altar which is months and their torment before God, saying to the was as the torment of a sixth angel which had the scorpion, when he striketh trumpet, Loose the four an­a man. And in those days gels which are bound in the shall men seek death, and great river Euphrates. And shall not find it; and shall the four angels were loosed, desire to die, and death shall which were prepared for an flee from them. And the hour, and a day, and a shapes of the locusts were month, and a year, for to slay like unto horses prepared the third part of men. And unto battle; and on their the number of the army of heads were as it were crowns the horsemen were two hun­