Revelation 9:2-4

Christian Standard Bible

² 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) 3} 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) 4} 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)