5. The locusts were not allowed to kill these people, but only to torture them for five months. The pain caused by the torture is like the pain caused by a scorpion's sting.
6. During those five months they will seek death, but will not find it; they will want to die, but death will flee from them.
7. The locusts looked like horses ready for battle; on their heads they had what seemed to be crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces.
8. Their hair was like women's hair, their teeth were like lions' teeth.
9. Their chests were covered with what looked like iron breastplates, and the sound made by their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle.
10. They have tails and stings like those of a scorpion, and it is with their tails that they have the power to hurt people for five months.
11. They have a king ruling over them, who is the angel in charge of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon; in Greek the name is Apollyon (meaning “The Destroyer”).
12. The first horror is over; after this there are still two more horrors to come.
13. Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet. I heard a voice coming from the four corners of the gold altar standing before God.
14. The voice said to the sixth angel, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”
15. The four angels were released; for this very hour of this very day of this very month and year they had been kept ready to kill a third of all humanity.
16. I was told the number of the mounted troops: it was 200,0000.