Revelation 9:1, 3, 5-6

Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that fell from heaven to earth, and he was handed the key to the shaft leading down to the pit of the deep.

And out of the smoke appeared locusts swarming onto the earth, and they were given authority like that of scorpions to inflict pain.

The locusts were given authority to torment them for five months, but not to kill them. Their painful torment is like the scorpion’s sting, and during that time people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die but death will elude them.