¹⁵ And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released^(A) to kill a third^(B) of mankind.^{(C) 16} The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.^(D)

¹⁷ 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^(E) came fire, smoke and sulfur.^(F)