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          DASV: Revelation 9    

1 Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that
had fallen from heaven to the earth and it was given the key
to the bottomless pit.
2 It opened the bottomless pit and smoke rose out of the pit,
like the smoke from a great furnace. The sun and air were
darkened by the smoke from the pit.
3 Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth; and they
were given power like scorpions of the earth.
4 They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, anything
green, or any tree, but only the people who did not have
the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 They were permitted to torture them for five months but not
to kill them, and their torture was like the pain of a
scorpion when it stings someone.
6 In those days people will seek death, but will be unable
to find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
7 The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for
battle. On their heads were what looked like gold crowns,
and their faces were like human faces.
8 They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like
lions' teeth.
9 They had breastplates like iron breastplates; and the sound
of their wings was like the sound of chariots drawn by horses
rushing into battle.
10 They had tails and stingers like scorpions, and in their
tails was their power to harm people for five months.
11 The king over them was the angel of the Abyss. His name
in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon
[meaning, the Destroyer].
12 The first woe has past. Look there are still two more woes
to come.

13 The sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from
the horns of the golden altar that is before God.
14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release
the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates."
15 So the four angels were released, who prepared for this
hour, day, month, and year, so that they could kill a third
of humankind.
16 I heard the number of troops mounted on horseback was
200 million.
17 Now this is what the horses I saw in the vision looked like.
The riders wore breastplates that were fiery red, hyacinth
blue and sulfur yellow. The horses' heads looked like lions;
and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur.
18 By these three plagues a third of humankind was killed--by
the fire, smoke, and sulfur that came out of their mouths.
19 For the power of the horses was in their mouth and tails.
Their tails are like snakes that have heads by which they
inflict damage.
20 The rest of humankind, who were not killed with these plagues,
refused to repent of the works of their hands or to give up
worshipping demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone,
and wood; which cannot see, hear, or walk.
21 They refused to repent of their murders, or their sorceries,
or their sexual immorality, or their thefts.

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