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The Book of Revelation, Chapter 9, Verse 2

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And 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.
King James Version
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
American Standard Version
And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
New English Translation
For the power of the horses resides in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails are like snakes, having heads that inflict injuries.
World English Bible
He 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.
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And 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.
4
And 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.
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And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
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And 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.
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And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions.
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And 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.
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And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power [was] to hurt men five months.
10
And 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.
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One woe is past; [and], behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
12
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,