⁵ When he broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature call out, “Come!”^[a] I looked, and there was a black horse! Its rider held a pair of scales in his hand,^(A)

² The first chariot had red horses, the second chariot black horses,^(A)

⁶ The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go toward the west country,^[a] and the dappled ones go toward the south country.”^(A)

¹⁶ Then he said to me, “Mortal, I am going to cut off the supply of bread^[a] in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.^(A)

The Seven Seals

6 Then I saw the Lamb break one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures call out, as with a voice of thunder, “Come!”^[a](A)

⁹ They sing a new song:

⁵ Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”^(A)

⁶ and in front of the throne there is something like a sea of glass, like crystal.

Around the throne, and on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and back:^{(A) 7} the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with a face like a human, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle.^(B)

²⁶ When I cut off your supply of bread,^[a] ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight, and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.^(A)

¹⁰ The food that you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; at fixed times you shall eat it.