Revelation 9:12–21

¹²The first woe has passed. There are still two more woes to come after this. ^g

The Sixth Trumpet

¹³The sixth angel blew his trumpet. From the four ^hhorns of the gold altar ⁱthat is before God, I heard a voice ¹⁴say to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels ^jbound at the great river Euphrates.” ^k15So the four angels who were prepared for the hour, day, month, and year ^lwere released to kill a third ^mof the human race. ¹⁶The number of mounted troops was 200 million; ⁿI heard their number. ¹⁷This is how I saw the horses in my vision: The horsemen had breastplates that were fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow. The heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and from their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur. ^o18A third of the human race was killed by these three plagues—by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came from their mouths. ¹⁹For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails, which resemble snakes, have heads, and they inflict injury with them.

²⁰The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands ^pto stop worshiping demons ^qand idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, ^rwhich are not able to see, hear, or walk. ^s21And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, ^ttheir sexual immorality, or their thefts.