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Revelation 9:8-16 Amplified Bible (AMP)

8. They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. [Joel 1:6.]

9. Their breastplates (scales) resembled breastplates made of iron, and the [whirring] noise made by their wings was like the roar of a vast number of horse-drawn chariots going at full speed into battle. [Joel 2:5.]

10. They have tails like scorpions, and they have stings, and in their tails lies their ability to hurt men for [the] five months.

11. Over them as king they have the angel of the Abyss (of the bottomless pit). In Hebrew his name is Abaddon [destruction], but in Greek he is called Apollyon [destroyer].

12. The first woe (calamity) has passed; behold, two others are yet to follow.

13. Then the sixth angel blew [his] trumpet, and from the four horns of the golden altar which stands before God I heard a solitary voice,

14. Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Liberate the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.

15. So the four angels who had been in readiness for that hour in the appointed day, month, and year were liberated to destroy a third of mankind.

16. The number of their troops of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten thousand (200,000,000); I heard what their number was.