11. They had a ruler, who was the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon. In Greek it is Apollyon.
12. The first terror is now past. There are still two other terrors to come.
13. The sixth angel blew his trumpet. Then I heard a voice coming from the horns on the four corners of the golden altar that is before God.
14. It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Free the four angels who are tied at the great river Euphrates.”
15. These four angels had been kept ready for this hour and day and month and year. The angels were set free to kill a third of all the people on the earth.
16. I heard how many troops on horses were in their army. There were 200,000,000.
17. In my vision, I saw the horses and the riders on the horses. They looked like this: They had breastplates that were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow like sulfur. The heads of the horses looked like heads of lions. The horses had fire, smoke, and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
18. A third of all the people on earth were killed by these three plagues coming out of the horses’ mouths: the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur.
19. The horses’ power was in their mouths and also in their tails. Their tails were like snakes that have heads to bite and hurt people.
20. The other people on earth were not killed by these plagues. But these people still did not change their hearts and turn away from worshiping the things they had made with their own hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—things that cannot see or hear or walk.
21. They did not change their hearts and turn away from killing other people or from their evil magic, their sexual sins, and their stealing.