Revelation 9:12–21

^12aThe first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

The Sixth Trumpet—Army from the East

¹³Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard ¹a voice from the ²four ^ahorns of the ^bgolden altar which is before God,

¹⁴one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the ^afour angels who are bound at the ^bgreat river Euphrates.”

¹⁵And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were ^areleased, so that they would kill a ^bthird of ¹mankind.

¹⁶The number of the armies of the horsemen was ^atwo hundred million; ^bI heard the number of them.

¹⁷And ¹this is how I saw ^ain the vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of ^2bbrimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and ^cout of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and brimstone.

¹⁸A ^athird of ¹mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the ^bfire and the smoke and the ²brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths.

¹⁹For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm.

²⁰The rest of ¹mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^adid not repent of ^bthe works of their hands, so as not to ^cworship demons, and ^dthe idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

²¹and they ^adid not repent of their murders nor of their ^bsorceries nor of their ^cimmorality nor of their thefts.