He opened the shaft to the abyss, and smoke came up out of the shaft like smoke from a great[a] furnace(A) so that the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft.(B) Then locusts came out of the smoke on to the earth,(C) and power[b] was given to them(D) like the power that scorpions have on the earth.(E) They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree,(F) but only those people who do not have God’s seal on their foreheads.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 9:2 Other mss omit great
  2. 9:3 Or authority, also in v. 10

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