1 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.3 And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or 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 torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes.6 During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.8 Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God.14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.16 The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths.19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood —idols that cannot see or hear or walk.21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

1 Et quintus angelus tuba cecinit : et vidi stellam de clo cecidisse in terram, et data est ei clavis putei abyssi. 2 Et aperuit puteum abyssi : et ascendit fumus putei, sicut fumus fornacis magn : et obscuratus est sol, et ar de fumo putei : 3 et de fumo putei exierunt locust in terram, et data est illis potestas, sicut habent potestatem scorpiones terr : 4 et prceptum est illis ne lderent fnum terr, neque omne viride, neque omnem arborem : nisi tantum homines, qui non habent signum Dei in frontibus suis : 5 et datum est illis ne occiderent eos : sed ut cruciarent mensibus quinque : et cruciatus eorum, ut cruciatus scorpii cum percutit hominem. 6 Et in diebus illis qurent homines mortem, et non invenient eam : et desiderabunt mori, et fugiet mors ab eis. 7 Et similitudines locustarum, similes equis paratis in prlium : et super capita earum tamquam coron similes auro : et facies earum tamquam facies hominum. 8 Et habebant capillos sicut capillos mulierum. Et dentes earum, sicut dentes leonum erant : 9 et habebant loricas sicut loricas ferreas, et vox alarum earum sicut vox curruum equorum multorum currentium in bellum : 10 et habebant caudas similes scorpionum, et aculei erant in caudis earum : et potestas earum nocere hominibus mensibus quinque : 11 et habebant super se regem angelum abyssi cui nomen hebraice Abaddon, grce autem Apollyon, latine habens nomen Exterminans. 12 V unum abiit, et ecce veniunt adhuc duo v post hc.13 Et sextus angelus tuba cecinit : et audivi vocem unam ex quatuor cornibus altaris aurei, quod est ante oculos Dei, 14 dicentem sexto angelo, qui habebat tubam : Solve quatuor angelos, qui alligati sunt in flumine magno Euphrate. 15 Et soluti sunt quatuor angeli, qui parati erant in horam, et diem, et mensem, et annum, ut occiderent tertiam partem hominum. 16 Et numerus equestris exercitus vicies millies dena millia. Et audivi numerum eorum. 17 Et ita vidi equos in visione : et qui sedebant super eos, habebant loricas igneas, et hyacinthinas, et sulphureas, et capita eorum erant tamquam capita leonum : et de ore eorum procedit ignis, et fumus, et sulphur. 18 Et ab his tribus plagis occisa est tertia pars hominum de igne, et de fumo, et sulphure, qu procedebant de ore ipsorum. 19 Potestas enim equorum in ore eorum est, et in caudis eorum, nam caud eorum similes serpentibus, habentes capita : et in his nocent. 20 Et ceteri homines, qui non sunt occisi in his plagis, neque pnitentiam egerunt de operibus manuum suarum, ut non adorarent dmonia, et simulacra aurea, et argentea, et rea, et lapidea, et lignea, qu neque videre possunt, neque audire, neque ambulare, 21 et non egerunt pnitentiam ab homicidiis suis, neque a veneficiis suis, neque a fornicatione sua, neque a furtis suis.