Rev 9 | ISV | STEP | The Vision of the Fifth Trumpet When the fifth angel blew his trumpet, I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky. The star was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.

Revelation of John 9

1 The Vision of the Fifth Trumpet

When the fifth angel blew his trumpet, I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky. ^{▼▼Or from heaven} The star ^{▼▼Lit. It} was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.Luke 8:31; 10:18; Rev 8:10; 17:8 2 It opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and smoke came out of the shaft like the smoke from a large furnace. The sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.Joel 2:2, 10 3 Locusts came out of the smoke onto the earth, and they were given power like the power of earthly scorpions.Exod 10:4; Judg 7:12; Rev 7:10 4 They were told not to harm the grass on the earth, any green plant, or any tree. They could harm ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks They could harm} only the people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.Exod 12:23; Ezek 9:4; Rev 6:6; 7:3; 8:7 5 They were not allowed to kill them, but were only allowed ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks were only allowed} to torture them for five months. Their torture was like the pain of a scorpion when it stings someone.Rev 11:7, 10 6 In those days people will look for death and never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them.Job 3:21; Isa 2:19; Jer 8:3; Rev 6:16

7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were victor's crowns that looked like gold, and their faces were like human faces.Dan 7:8; Joel 2:4; Nah 3:17 8 They had hair like women's hair and teeth like lions’ teeth.Joel 1:6 9 They had breastplates like iron, and the noise of their wings was like the roar of chariots with many horses rushing into battle.Joel 2:5-7 10 They had tails and stingers like scorpions, and they had the power to hurt people with their tails for five months.Rev 9:5 11 They had the angel of the bottomless pit ruling over them as king. In Hebrew he is called Abaddon, ^{▼▼I.e. Destruction} and in Greek he is called Apollyon. ^{▼▼I.e. Destroyer}Eph 2:2; Rev 2:1

12 The first catastrophe is over. After these things there are still two more catastrophes to come.Rev 8:13

13 The Vision of the Sixth TrumpetWhen the sixth angel blew his trumpet, I heard a voice from the four ^{▼▼Other mss. lack four} horns of the gold altar in front of God. 14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are held at the great Euphrates River.”Rev 16:12 15 So the four angels who were ready for that hour, day, month, and year were released to kill one-third of humanity. 16 The number of cavalry troops was 200,000,000. I heard how many there were. ^{▼▼Lit. heard their number}Ps 68:17; Ezek 38:4; Dan 7:10; Rev 7:4

17 This was how I saw the horses in my vision: The riders wore breastplates that had the color of fire, sapphire, and sulfur. The heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire, smoke, and sulfur came out of their mouths.1Chr 12:8; Isa 5:28-29 18 By these three plagues—the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths—one-third of humanity was killed. 19 For the power of these horses is in their mouths and their tails. Their tails have heads like snakes, which they use to inflict pain.Isa 9:15

20 The rest of the people who survived these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands or stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk.Lev 17:7; Deut 31:29; 32:17; Ps 106:37; 115:4; 135:15; Dan 5:23; 1Cor 10:20 21 They did not repent of their murders, their deeds of witchcraft, their acts of sexual immorality, or their thefts.Rev 22:15