Tune: St Asaph
(\'Through the night of doubt and sorrow\')
Revelation 9 v.1-12
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Fifth angel sounded, John saw star
Fall to earth from heaven afar
One granted key to bottomless
Pit, was a smoke-filled abyss
Sun and air darkened by the smoke
As great furnace, it did choke
From smoke came locusts, and power
Given to them at that hour
Power as do have scorpions
Stinging and poisonous ones
But they not to hurt anything
Green, but to those torment bring
That have not in foreheads received
Seal of God, such not believed
Torment is as scorpion\'s sting
Pain and hurt in everything
Though in those days men shall death seek
They not find it, judgement wreaks
Troubles to them, locusts they be
Like horses for battle, see
Crowns of gold, and faces of men
Hair as women, their teeth then
Were as lions, iron breastplates
Wings as chariots sounds makes
Tails as scorpions, they do sting
For a time misery bring
King over them, he the angel
Of bottomless pit, we tell
That his name it be Adaddon
In Hebrew, it Destruction
And in Greek tongue, Apollyon
His name the Destroying one