They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree, but only the people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
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2and it opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke rose out of the shaft like the smoke of a great furnace. The sun and the sky were darkened by the smoke from the shaft. 3Out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. 4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree, but only the people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5They were not allowed to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes someone. 6In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will flee from them.
