¹⁶ The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.^(A)

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^(B) came fire, smoke and sulfur.^{(C) 18} A third^(D) of mankind was killed^(E) by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur^(F) that came out of their mouths.