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And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
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In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
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The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.
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They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.
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And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle.
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They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months.
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And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
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One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.
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Then 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 who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
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So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.