Revelation 9:12–21

¹²The first horror is over; after this there are still two more horrors to come.

^13*Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet. I heard a voice coming from the four corners of the gold altar standing before God. ¹⁴The voice said to the sixth angel, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!” ¹⁵The 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. ¹⁶I was told the number of the mounted troops: it was two hundred million. ¹⁷And 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. ¹⁸A third of humanity was killed by those three plagues: the fire, the smoke, and the sulphur coming out of the horses’ mouths. ¹⁹For 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. ²¹Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic, their sexual immorality, or their stealing.