Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God, saying to the sixth angel, who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
So the four angels who had been prepared for the hour and day, and month, and year, were released to kill a third of mankind. Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two-hundred million. And I heard the number of them, and thus I saw the horse of the vision. Those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue and sulphur yellow. And the heads of the horses looked like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and brimstone.
By theses three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire, and the smoke, and the brimstone which came out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they do harm. But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone and wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk. And they did not repent of their murders, nor their sorceries, nor their sexual immorality, nor their thefts.
