New English Translation

Revelation 9:9-16 New English Translation (NET)

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

10. They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability 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, Apollyon.

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

13. Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God,

14. saying to the sixth angel, the one holding the trumpet, “Set free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”

15. Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour, day, month, and year were set free to kill a third of humanity.

16. The number of soldiers on horseback was two hundred million; I heard their number.