Revelation 9
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Revelation 9:10-19

10They had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five months they had the power to torment people.

11Their king is the angel from the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon—the Destroyer.

12The first terror is past, but look, two more terrors are coming!

13Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice speaking from the four horns of the gold altar that stands in the presence of God.

14And the voice said to the sixth angel who held the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River.”

15Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were turned loose to kill one-third of all the people on earth.

16I heard the size of their army, which was 200 million mounted troops.

17And in my vision, I saw the horses and the riders sitting on them. The riders wore armor that was fiery red and dark blue and yellow. The horses had heads like lions, and fire and smoke and burning sulfur billowed from their mouths.

18One-third of all the people on earth were killed by these three plagues—by the fire and smoke and burning sulfur that came from the mouths of the horses.

19Their power was in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails had heads like snakes, with the power to injure people.

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