| King James Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. | 1When the fifth angel blew his trumpet, I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky. The star was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. |
| 2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. | 2It opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and smoke came out of the shaft like the smoke from a large furnace. The sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. |
| 3And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. | 3Locusts came out of the smoke onto the earth, and they were given power like that of earthly scorpions. |
| 4And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. | 4They were told not to harm the grass on the earth, any green plant, or any tree. They could harm only the people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. |
| 5And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. | 5They were not allowed to kill them, but were only allowed to torture them for five months. Their torture was like the pain of a scorpion when it stings someone. |
| 6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. | 6In those days people will seek death, but never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them. |
| 7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. | 7The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were victor's crowns that looked like gold, and their faces were like human faces. |
| 8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. | 8They had hair like women's hair and teeth like lions' teeth. |
| 9And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. | 9They had breastplates like iron, and the noise of their wings was like the roar of chariots with many horses rushing into battle. |
| 10And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. | 10They had tails and stingers like scorpions, and they had the power to hurt people with their tails for five months. |
| 11And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. | 11They had the angel of the bottomless pit ruling over them as king. In Hebrew he is called Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon. |
| 12One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. | 12The first catastrophe is over. After these things, there are still two more catastrophes to come. |
| 13And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, | 13When the sixth angel blew his trumpet, I heard a voice from the four horns of the gold altar in front of God. |
| 14Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. | 14It told the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are held at the great Euphrates River." |
| 15And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. | 15So the four angels who were ready for that hour, day, month, and year were released to kill one-third of humanity. |
| 16And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. | 16The number of cavalry troops was 200,000,000. I heard how many there were. |
| 17And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. | 17This was how I saw the horses in my vision: The riders wore breastplates that had the color of fire, sapphire, and sulfur. The heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire, smoke, and sulfur came out of their mouths. |
| 18By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. | 18By these three plagues—the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths—one-third of humanity was killed. |
| 19For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. | 19For the power of these horses is in their mouths and their tails. Their tails have heads like snakes, which they use to inflict pain. |
| 20And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: | 20The rest of the people who survived these plagues did not repent from their evil actions or stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk. |
| 21Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. | 21They did not repent from their murders, their witchcraft, their sexual immorality, or their thefts. |
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