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The Book of Revelation, Chapter 9, Verse 3

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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.
King James Version
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.
American Standard Version
And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads.
New English Translation
The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood– idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.
World English Bible
Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
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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.
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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.
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And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
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Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.