Revelation 9:9-20

New International Version

⁹ They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.^{(A) 10} They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.^{(B) 11} They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss,^(C) whose name in Hebrew^(D) is Abaddon^(E) and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).

¹² The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.^(F)

¹³ The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns^(G) of the golden altar that is before God.^{(H) 14} It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels^(I) who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”^{(J) 15} And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released^(K) to kill a third^(L) of mankind.^{(M) 16} The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.^(N)

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^(O) came fire, smoke and sulfur.^{(P) 18} A third^(Q) of mankind was killed^(R) by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur^(S) that came out of their mouths. ¹⁹ The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.

²⁰ The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent^(T) of the work of their hands;^(U) they did not stop worshiping demons,^(V) and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.^(W)