14 The voice said to the sixth angel, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”
15 The four angels were released; for this very hour of this very day of this very month and year they had been kept ready to kill a third of all humanity.
16 I was told the number of the mounted troops: it was 200,0000.
17 And in my vision I saw the horses and their riders: they had breastplates red as fire, blue as sapphire, and yellow as sulphur. The horses' heads were like lions' heads, and from their mouths came out fire, smoke, and sulphur.
18 A third of humanity was killed by those three plagues: the fire, the smoke, and the sulphur coming out of the horses' mouths.
19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and also in their tails. Their tails are like snakes with heads, and they use them to hurt people.
20 The rest of humanity, all those who had not been killed by these plagues, did not turn away from what they themselves had made. They did not stop worshipping demons, nor the idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk.