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they cried out with a loud voice, "Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?"

They were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number would be complete both of their fellow servants and of their brothers and sisters, who were soon to be killed as they themselves had been killed.

They cried out in a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!"

And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, "Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?"

I said to him, "Sir, you are the one that knows." Then he said to me, "These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

For this reason they are before the throne of God, and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.

They will hunger no more, and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat;

The first angel blew his trumpet, and there came hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were hurled to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given authority like the authority of scorpions of the earth.

They were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings someone.

And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.

they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.

They have tails like scorpions, with stingers, and in their tails is their power to harm people for five months.

They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they inflict harm.

And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their fornication or their thefts.

Then they said to me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and languages and kings."

but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.

They have authority to shut the sky, so that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.