1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 3And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4And 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. 5And 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. 6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 7And 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. 8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 9And 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. 10And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. 11And 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. 12One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15And 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. 16And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. 17And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. 18By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. 19For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. 20And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 21Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
1Tocou então a sua trombeta o quinto anjo. E vi uma estrela que caíra do céu sobre a Terra e foi-lhe dada a chave do abismo insondável. 2E quando o abriu, saiu dali fumo, como se fosse de uma imensa fornalha, a ponto de escurecer completamente o ar e o Sol.
3E saíram gafanhotos, do meio daquele grande fumo, que desceram sobre a Terra. E deram-lhes poder para ferroar como os escorpiões. 4Foi-lhes dito que poupassem a vegetação da Terra, a erva, os arbustos, as árvores, e que atacassem somente as pessoas que não tinham nas suas testas a marca de Deus. 5Não deviam matá-las, mas sim torturá-las, durante cinco meses, com um sofrimento semelhante ao que provoca a picada do escorpião. 6Durante esse tempo os homens hão de querer morrer, procurando matar-se e não serão capazes de o fazer: a morte não lhes virá, fugirá deles!
7Esses gafanhotos pareciam cavalos aparelhados para a guerra. Traziam na cabeça algo como coroas de ouro e o seu focinho assemelhava-se ao rosto de homens. 8Tinham na cabeça cabelos compridos, como as mulheres, e viam-se-lhes dentes como de leão. 9Traziam o peito protegido por uma couraça de ferro e quando batiam as asas faziam barulho como um batalhão de carros de combate avançando para a guerra. 10Tinham caudas armadas de um ferrão, tal como os escorpiões, e era com isso que podiam ferir as pessoas, durante cinco meses, como lhes tinha sido ordenado. 11O seu comandante é o anjo do abismo profundo, cujo nome em hebraico é Abadom, e em grego é Apolion, que quer dizer “Destruidor”.
12Assim terminou o primeiro “ai”, mas ainda hão de vir mais dois.
13O sexto anjo tocou a sua trombeta e ouvi uma voz que falava a partir dos quatro chifres do altar de ouro diante de Deus. 14Dirigia-se ao sexto anjo que tinha a trombeta, dizendo: “Solta os quatro anjos que estão amarrados junto do grande rio Eufrates.” 15Eles tinham sido mantidos prontos para aquele momento exato, precisamente para aquela hora, dia, mês e ano. Foram então soltos para que matassem uma terça parte da humanidade. 16E dirigiam um exército de 200 milhões de militares, segundo o número que ouvi anunciar.
17Os cavalos desse exército eram montados por cavaleiros com couraças cor de fogo umas, e outras azuis e amarelas. As cabeças dos cavalos assemelhavam-se às de leões, e saía fogo, enxofre incandescente e fumo das suas bocas. 18Assim mataram uma terça parte de toda a humanidade. 19O poder que tinham para matar estava nas suas bocas e também nas caudas, porque estas eram semelhantes a cabeças de serpentes que podiam ferir mortalmente.
20E os seres humanos que não foram mortos por essas pragas, mesmo assim não se arrependeram das suas obras más! Não quiseram abandonar o culto aos demónios, nem deixar os ídolos de ouro, prata, bronze, pedra e madeira, que não podem ver, nem ouvir, nem andar! 21Não quiseram arrepender-se dos seus assassínios, das suas bruxarias, dos seus atos de imoralidade sexual e dos seus roubos.
