1. And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,
2. and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.
3. And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority,
4. and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but--the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads,
5. and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment [is] as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;
6. and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.
7. And the likenesses of the locusts [are] like to horses made ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men,
8. and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as [those] of lions,
9. and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings [is] as the noise of chariots of many horses running to battle;