3. Locusts came out of the smoke onto the land, and they were given the same power as scorpions of the earth.
4. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or any tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5. They were not allowed to kill them but only to torment them for five months; the torment they inflicted was like that of a scorpion when it stings a person.
6. During that time these people will seek death but will not find it, and they will long to die but death will escape them.
7. The appearance of the locusts was like that of horses ready for battle. On their heads they wore what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,
8. and they had hair like women’s hair. Their teeth were like lions’ teeth,
9. and they had chests like iron breastplates. The sound of their wings was like the sound of many horse-drawn chariots racing into battle.
10. They had tails like scorpions, with stingers; with their tails they had power to harm people for five months.
11. They had as their king the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon.
12. The first woe has passed, but there are two more to come.
13. Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the [four] horns of the gold altar before God,
14. telling the sixth angel who held the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the banks of the great river Euphrates.”
15. So the four angels were released, who were prepared for this hour, day, month, and year to kill a third of the human race.