6. At that time people will look for death and never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them.
7. The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. They seemed to have crowns that looked like gold on their heads. Their faces were like human faces.
8. They had hair like women’s hair and teeth like lions’ teeth.
9. They had breastplates like iron. The noise from their wings was like the roar of chariots with many horses rushing into battle.
10. They had tails and stingers like scorpions. They had the power to hurt people with their tails for five months.
11. The king who ruled them was the angel from the bottomless pit. In Hebrew he is called Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
12. The first catastrophe is over. After these things there are two more catastrophes yet to come.
13. When the sixth angel blew his trumpet, I heard a voice from the four horns of the gold altar in front of God.
14. The voice said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are held at the great Euphrates River.”