¹³ Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from ^(A)the four horns of the golden altar before God, ¹⁴ saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release ^(B)the four angels who are bound at ^(C)the great river Euphrates.” ¹⁵ So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released ^(D)to kill a third of mankind. ¹⁶ The number of ^(E)mounted troops was ^(F)twice ten thousand times ten thousand; ^(G)I heard their number. ¹⁷ 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^[a] and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were ^(H)like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. ¹⁸ By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. ¹⁹ For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.

²⁰ The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^(I)did not repent of ^(J)the works of their hands nor give up worshiping ^(K)demons ^(L)and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, ²¹ nor did they repent of their murders or their ^(M)sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.