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The Book of Revelation, Chapter 9, Verse 4

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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.
King James Version
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.
American Standard Version
And it was given them 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 it striketh a man.
New English Translation
Furthermore, they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing.
World English Bible
They 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.
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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.
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And 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.