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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Revelation 9 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/revelation/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/revelation/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Revelation 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../revelation/8.htm" title="Revelation 8">◄</a> Revelation 9 <a href="../revelation/10.htm" title="Revelation 10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/revelation/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek the abyss; also verses 2, 11">a</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Abaddon means destruction; Apollyon means destroyer">b</a></sup></span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek hyacinth">c</a></sup></span> and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Greek <i><span class="catch-word">the</span> abyss</i>; also verses 2, 11<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <i class="catch-word">Abaddon</i> means <i>destruction</i>; <i class="catch-word">Apollyon</i> means <i>destroyer</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> Greek <i>hyacinth</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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