15 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. 12 One woe is past and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.ġ3 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

11 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. 10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. 9 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. 8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 7 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. 6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 5 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. 4 And 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. 3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 2 And 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.

1 And 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.

The year of the locust delay