Revelation 9:1: “And the fifth angel sounded," [The first WOE] "and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him” [The fifth angel] “was given the key of the bottomless pit.”
Revelation 9:2: “And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.”
Revelation 9:3: “And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them" [The locusts] "was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.” To sting with their tail.
Revelation 9:4: “And it was commanded them" [The locusts] "that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.”
Revelation 9:5: “And to them” [The locusts] “it was given that they should not kill them,” [The men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads] “but that they, should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.”