1El quinto ángel tocó su trompeta y vi que había caído del cielo a la tierra una estrella, a la cual se le entregó la llave del pozo del abismo. 2Lo abrió y del pozo subió una humareda, como la de un horno gigantesco que oscureció el sol y el aire. 3De la humareda descendieron langostas sobre la tierra y se les dio poder como el que tienen los escorpiones de la tierra. 4Se les ordenó que no dañaran la hierba de la tierra, ni ninguna planta ni ningún árbol, sino solo a las personas que no llevaran en la frente el sello de Dios. 5No se les dio permiso para matarlas, sino solo para atormentarlas durante cinco meses. Su tormento es como el producido por la picadura de un escorpión. 6En aquellos días la gente buscará la muerte, pero no la encontrará; desearán morir, pero la muerte huirá de ellos.
7El aspecto de las langostas era como de caballos equipados para la guerra. Llevaban en la cabeza algo que parecía una corona de oro y su cara se asemejaba a un rostro humano. 8Su crin parecía cabello de mujer y sus dientes eran como de león. 9Llevaban coraza como de hierro y el ruido de sus alas se escuchaba como el estruendo de carros de muchos caballos que se lanzan a la batalla. 10Tenían cola y aguijón como de escorpión. En la cola tenían poder para herir a la gente durante cinco meses. 11El rey que los dirigía era el ángel del abismo, que en hebreo se llama Abadón y en griego Apolión.9:11 Abadón y Apolión significan Destructor.
12El primer ¡ay! ya pasó, pero vienen todavía otros dos.
13El sexto ángel tocó su trompeta y oí una voz que salía de entre los cuernos del altar de oro que está delante de Dios. 14A este ángel que tenía la trompeta, la voz le dijo: «Suelta a los cuatro ángeles que están atados a la orilla del gran río Éufrates». 15Así que los cuatro ángeles que habían sido preparados precisamente para esa hora y ese día, mes y año, quedaron sueltos para matar a la tercera parte de la humanidad. 16Oí que el número de las tropas de caballería llegaba a doscientos millones.
17Así vi en la visión a los caballos y a sus jinetes: tenían coraza de color rojo encendido, púrpura y amarillo como azufre. La cabeza de los caballos era como de león y por la boca echaban fuego, humo y azufre. 18La tercera parte de la humanidad murió a causa de las tres plagas de fuego, humo y azufre que salían de la boca de los caballos. 19Es que el poder de los caballos radicaba en su boca y en su cola; pues sus colas, semejantes a serpientes, tenían cabezas con las que hacían daño.
20El resto de la humanidad, los que no murieron a causa de estas plagas, tampoco se arrepintieron de sus malas acciones ni dejaron de adorar a los demonios y a los ídolos de oro, plata, bronce, piedra y madera, los cuales no pueden ver ni oír ni caminar. 21Tampoco se arrepintieron de sus asesinatos ni de sus artes mágicas, inmoralidad sexual y robos.
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.
