4. They were told not to harm the grass on the earth or any plant or tree. They could harm only the people who did not have the sign of God on their foreheads.
5. These locusts were given the power to cause pain to the people for five months. But they were not given the power to kill anyone. And the pain they felt was like the pain that a scorpion gives when it stings a person.
6. During those days people will look for a way to die, but they will not find it. They will want to die, but death will run away from them.
7. The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore things that looked like crowns of gold. Their faces looked like human faces.
8. Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.
9. Their chests looked like iron breastplates. The sound their wings made was like the noise of many horses and chariots hurrying into battle.
10. The locusts had tails with stingers like scorpions. The power they had to hurt people for five months was in their tails.
11. The locusts had a king who was the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in the Hebrew language is Abaddon. In the Greek language his name is Apollyon.
12. The first great trouble is past. There are still two other great troubles that will come.
13. The sixth angel blew his trumpet. Then I heard a voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God.
14. The voice said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Free the four angels who are tied at the great river Euphrates.”