Revelation 9

1The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.Cross-references: Isa 14:12 · Luke 8:31 · Luke 10:18 · Rom 10:7 · 2Thess 2:3 · 2Tim 3:1 · +12 more

2He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.Cross-references: Gen 15:17 · Gen 19:28 · Ex 10:21 · Ex 19:18 · Isa 14:31 · Joel 2:2 · +6 more

3Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.Cross-references: Ex 10:4 · Deut 8:15 · Judg 7:12 · 1Ki 12:11 · Isa 33:4 · Ezek 2:6 · +7 more

4They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.Cross-references: Ex 12:23 · Job 1:10 · Job 1:12 · Job 2:6 · Ps 76:10 · Ezek 9:4 · +8 more

5They were given power, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a person.Cross-references: Job 2:6 · Dan 5:18 · Dan 7:6 · John 19:11 · Rev 9:3 · Rev 9:10 · +3 more

6In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.Cross-references: 2Sam 1:9 · Job 3:20 · Job 7:15 · Isa 2:19 · Jer 8:3 · Hos 10:8 · +3 more

7The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces.Cross-references: Dan 7:4 · Dan 7:8 · Joel 2:4 · Nah 3:17

8They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:30 · Ps 57:4 · Isa 3:24 · Joel 1:6 · 1Cor 11:14 · 1Tim 2:9 · +1 more

9They had breastplates like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of many chariots and horses rushing to war.Cross-references: Job 39:25 · Job 40:18 · Job 41:23 · Isa 9:5 · Joel 2:5 · Nah 2:4 · +1 more

10They have tails like those of scorpions, with stingers. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.Cross-references: Rev 9:3 · Rev 9:5 · Rev 9:19

11They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is “Abaddon”, but in Greek, he has the name “Apollyon”.Cross-references: Job 26:6 · John 8:44 · John 12:31 · John 14:30 · John 16:11 · 2Cor 4:4 · +5 more

12The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.Cross-references: Rev 8:13 · Rev 9:13 · Rev 11:14

13The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,Cross-references: Ex 30:2 · Heb 9:24 · Heb 10:21 · Rev 8:3 · Rev 9:1

14saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”Cross-references: Gen 2:14 · 2Sam 8:3 · Jer 51:63 · Rev 7:1 · Rev 8:2 · Rev 8:6 · +2 more

15The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.Cross-references: Rev 8:7 · Rev 8:9 · Rev 8:11 · Rev 9:5 · Rev 9:10 · Rev 9:18

16The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million. I heard the number of them.Cross-references: Ps 68:17 · Ezek 23:6 · Ezek 38:4 · Dan 7:10 · Dan 11:40 · Rev 5:11 · +1 more

17Thus I saw the horses in the vision and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the horses’ heads resembled lions’ heads. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · 1Chr 12:8 · Ps 11:6 · Isa 5:28 · Isa 30:33 · Ezek 33:22 · +8 more

18By these three plagues, one third of mankind was killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.Cross-references: Rev 9:15 · Rev 9:17

19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads; and with them they harm.Cross-references: Isa 9:15 · Eph 4:14 · Rev 9:10

20The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which can’t see, hear, or walk.Cross-references: Lev 17:7 · Deut 31:29 · Deut 32:17 · 2Ki 22:17 · 2Chr 28:22 · 2Chr 34:25 · +32 more

21They didn’t repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.Cross-references: Isa 47:9 · Isa 47:12 · Isa 57:3 · Dan 7:21 · Dan 11:33 · Mal 3:5 · +16 more