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The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.

13 And I looked, and I heard an angel [fn] flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!"

And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.

And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

saying: "We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty,The One who is and who was and who is to come, [fn] Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.

Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time."

And another angel followed, saying, "Babylon [fn] is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication."

And I heard the angel of the waters saying: "You are righteous, O Lord, [fn] The One who is and who was and who is to be, [fn] Because You have judged these things.

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain.

They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.

And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.

For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her."