9 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth.^(A) The star was given the key^(B) to the shaft of the Abyss.^(C)

³ And out of the smoke locusts^(A) came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions^(B) of the earth.

⁵ They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months.^(A) And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion^(B) when it strikes.

¹⁰ They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.^(A)