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The Vision of the Fifth Trumpet

When the fifth angel blew his trumpet, I saw a star that had fallen to earth[a] from the sky.[b] The star[c] was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.[d] It opened the shaft of the bottomless pit,[e] and smoke came out of the shaft like the smoke from a large furnace. The sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. Locusts came out of the smoke onto the earth, and they were given power like that of earthly scorpions.

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  1. Revelation 9:1 I.e. Lucifer
  2. Revelation 9:1 Or from heaven
  3. Revelation 9:1 Lit. It
  4. Revelation 9:1 I.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife
  5. Revelation 9:2 I.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife