1 Tocou então a sua trombeta o quinto anjo. E vi uma estrela que caiu do céu à Terra. Foi-lhe dada a chave do abismo insondável.2 E quando o abriu, saiu dali fumo, como se fosse de uma imensa fornalha, a ponto de escurecer completamente o ar e o Sol.3 E saíram gafanhotos do meio daquele grande fumo que desceram sobre a Terra; e deram-lhes poder para ferroar como os escorpiões.4 Foi-lhes dito que poupassem a vegetação da Terra, a erva, os arbustos, as árvores, e que atacassem somente as pessoas que não tinham nas suas testas a marca de Deus.-5 Não deviam matá-las, mas sim torturá-las durante cinco meses com um sofrimento semelhante ao que provoca a picada do escorpião.6 Durante esse tempo os homens hão-de querer morrer, procurando matar-se e não serão capazes de o fazer - a morte não lhes vem, fugirá deles!7 Esses gafanhotos pareciam cavalos aparelhados como para a guerra; traziam na cabeça umas como que coroas de ouro, e o seu focinho assemelhava-se ao rosto de homens.8 Tinham na cabeça cabelos compridos, como as mulheres, e viam-se-lhes dentes como de leão.9 Traziam o peito protegido por uma couraça de ferro, e quando batiam as asas faziam barulho como um batalhão de carros de combate avançando para a luta.10 Tinham caudas armadas de um ferrão, tal como os escorpiões, e era com isso que podiam ferir as pessoas, durante cinco meses, como lhes tinham ordenado.•11 O seu comandante é o anjo do abismo profundo, cujo nome em hebraico é Abadom, e em grego é Apolion .12 Assim terminou a primeira desgraça, mas há ainda mais duas para vir!13 O sexto anjo tocou a sua trombeta e ouvi uma voz falando a partir dos quatro cantos do altar de ouro diante de Deus, ea14 dirigia-se ao sexto anjo dizendo: Solta os quatro anjos que estão amarrados junto do grande rio Eufrates.15 Eles tinham sido mantidos prontos para aquele momento exacto - precisamente para aquele ano e mês e dia e hora. Foram então soltos para que matassem uma terça parte da humanidade16 E dirigiam um exército de 200 milhões de militares, segundo o número que eu ouvi anunciar.17 Os cavalos desse exército eram montados por cavaleiros com couraças cor de fogo umas, e outras azuis e amarelas. As cabeças dos cavalos assemelhavam-se às de leões, e saía fogo, enxofre incandescente e fumo das suas bocas;18 assim mataram uma terça parte de toda a humanidade19 O poder que tinham para matar estava nas suas bocas e também nas caudas, porque estas eram semelhantes a cabeças de serpentes, que podiam ferir mortalmente.20 E os outros seres humanos que não foram mortos por essas pragas, mesmo assim não se arrependeram das suas obras más! Não quiseram abandonar o seu culto aos demónios, nem deixar os ídolos de ouro, prata, bronze, pedra e madeira, e que não podem ver, nem ouvir, nem andar!21 Não quiseram pois arrepender-se dos seus assassínios, das suas bruxarias, dos seus actos de imoralidade e dos seus roubos.

1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men who have not the seal of God in their foreheads.5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.7 And the shapes of the locusts were like to horses prepared for battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.9 And they had breast-plates, as it were breast-plates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.10 And they had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.11 And they had a king over them, who is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew language is Abaddon, but in the Greek language he hath his name Apollyon.12 One woe is past; and behold, there come two woes more hereafter.13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,14 Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Loose the four angels who are bound in the great river Euphrates.15 And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, to slay the third part of men.16 And the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breast-plates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and out of their mouths issued fire, and smoke, and brimstone.18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like to serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.20 And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their lewdness, nor of their thefts.