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The Book of Revelation, Chapter 9, Verse 5

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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.
King James Version
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
American Standard Version
And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.
New English Translation
The Angel with the Little Scroll Then I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun and his legs were like pillars of fire.
World English Bible
They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.
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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.
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And the number of the army of the horsemen [were] two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.