MODERN LITERAL VERSION

9:1 And the fifth messenger sounded and I saw a star from heaven fallen to the earth and the key of the pit of the abyss was given to him.
9:2 And he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a burning furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened from the smoke of the pit.
9:3 And locusts came forth out of the smoke upon the earth, and authority was given to them, like the scorpions of the earth have authority.
9:4 And it was said to them that* they should not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any pale-green thing, nor any tree, except only men who do not have the seal of God upon their foreheads.
9:5 And it was given to them that* they should not kill them, but that* they should be tormented five months and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, whenever it strikes a man.
9:6 And in those days men will seek death and will never* find it, and they will desire to die and death will flee from them.
9:7 And the likeness of the locusts were similar to horses prepared *for war, and upon their heads like crowns similar to gold and their faces were like men's faces.
9:8 And they had hair like the hair of women and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.
9:9 And they had breastplates, like iron breastplates, and the {F} sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses running to war.
9:10 And they have tails similar to scorpions and stings, and they have their authority in their tails to hurt men for five months.
9:11 They have the messenger of the abyss as king over them. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon but in the Greek language he has the name Apollyon.

9:12 The first Woe has gone away. Behold, two Woes still are coming after these things.

9:13 And the sixth messenger sounded and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
9:14 someone saying to the sixth messenger who has the trumpet, Loose the four messengers who are bound upon the great river Euphrates.
9:15 And the four messengers were loosed, that had been prepared *for the hour and day and month and year, that* they should kill one third of men.
9:16 And the number of the armies of the horse men was twice tens of thousands of tens of thousands. I heard the number of them.
9:17 And so I saw the horses in the vision and those who sat upon them, having fiery breastplates of hyacinth and of brimstone and the heads of lions; and fire and smoke and brimstone is coming out from their mouths.
9:18 From these three wounds, one third of men was killed from the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which came out from their mouths.
9:19 For* the authority of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails; for* their tails are similar to serpents and have heads, and with them they hurt men.
9:20 And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these wounds, did not repent of the works of their hands, that* they should not worship the demons and the golden and silver and brass and stone and wooden idols; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
9:21 And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their stealing.
{Footnotes: Re 9:9- voice or language. Re 9:16- Or: infinite number.}