Revelation 9:1-12 - Tormenting Locusts From The Abyss

¹ The fifth angel blew his trumpet. I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth. The key of the bottomless pit was given to him. ² He opened the bottomless pit. Smoke came out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace. The smoke from the pit darkened the sun and the air. ³ Out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth. Power was given to them like the scorpions of the earth have power. ⁴ They were commanded not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God in their foreheads. ⁵ The locusts were not to kill them, but should torment them for five months: and their torment was the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a man. ⁶ Men will seek death in those days and will not find it. They will desire to die and death will elude them.

⁷ The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. They wore gold crowns on their heads and their faces were like the faces of men. ⁸ Their hair was like the hair of women. Their teeth were like the teeth of lions. ⁹ They had breastplates like iron. The sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots with many horses running to battle. ¹⁰ Their tails were like scorpions' tails, for there were stings in their tails. They had power to hurt men five months. ¹¹ The angel of the bottomless pit was their king. His name in the Hebrew language is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. ¹² The first woe is past. There are two more woes to come.