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On their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>They have tails like scorpions, with stingers, and in their tails is their power to harm people for five months. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-35107a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> and in Greek he is called Apollyon.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-35107b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The first woe has passed. There are still two woes to come.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-35109c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> horns of the golden altar before God, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>So the four angels were released, who had been held ready for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, to kill a third of humankind. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>The number of the troops of cavalry was two hundred million; I heard their number. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>And this was how I saw the horses in my vision: the riders wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-35113d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> and of sulfur; the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>By these three plagues a third of humankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they inflict harm.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>The rest of humankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands or give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their fornication or their thefts.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Revelation 9:11">Revelation 9:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is, <i>Destruction</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Revelation 9:11">Revelation 9:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is, <i>Destroyer</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Revelation 9:13">Revelation 9:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities lack <i>four</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Revelation 9:17">Revelation 9:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>hyacinth</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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