^9:17Now⁴⁴ this is what the horses and their riders⁴⁵ looked like in my⁴⁶ vision: The riders had breastplates that were fiery red,⁴⁷ dark blue,⁴⁸ and sulfurous⁴⁹ yellow in color.⁵⁰ The⁵¹ heads of the horses looked like lions’ heads, and fire, smoke, and sulfur⁵² came out of their mouths.

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Footnotes

44 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the introduction of the description of the horses and riders, which is somewhat parenthetical in the narrative.
45 Grk “and those seated on them.”
46 Grk “the vision”; the Greek article has been translated as a possessive pronoun ( ).
47 L&N 79.31 states, “ ‘fiery red’ (probably with a tinge of yellow or orange).”
48 On this term ὑακίνθινος states, “hyacinth-colored, i.e. dark blue (dark red?) w. πύρινος Rv 9:17.”
49 On this term θειώδης states, “sulphurous Rv 9:17.”
50 The colors of the riders’ breastplates parallel the three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur in v. 18.
51 Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
52 Traditionally, “brimstone.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

This is how I saw the horses and their riders in the vision: They had breastplates that were fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and from their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur.

NLTNew Living Translation

And in my vision, I saw the horses and the riders sitting on them. The riders wore armor that was fiery red and dark blue and yellow. The horses had heads like lions, and fire and smoke and burning sulfur billowed from their mouths.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And in this way I saw the horses in the vision, and those seated on them, who had fiery red and hyacinth-colored and sulphurous yellow breastplates, and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and sulphur.

KJV 1900King James Version

And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

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