Lexham English Bible

Revelation 9:3-16 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

3. And out of the smoke locusts came to the earth, and power was given to them like the scorpions of the earth have power.

4. And it was told to them that they should not damage the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, except those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

5. And it was granted to them that they should not kill them, but that they would be tormented five months, and their torment is like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a person.

6. And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.

7. And the appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads were something like crowns similar in appearance to gold, and their faces were like men’s faces,

8. and they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions,

9. and they had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of many horse-drawn chariots running into battle.

10. And they have tails similar in appearance to scorpions, and stings, and their power to injure people for five months is in their tails.

11. They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

12. The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

13. And the sixth angel blew the trumpet, and I heard one voice from the horns of the golden altar that is before God

14. saying to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who have been bound at the great river Euphrates!”

15. And the four angels who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year were released, in order that they should kill a third of humanity.

16. And the number of the troops of the cavalry was two hundred million; I heard the number of them.