15. These four angels had been kept ready for this hour and day and month and year. They were freed to kill a third of all 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 their riders. 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 terrible things 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 the earth were not killed by these terrible things. But they still did not change their hearts and turn away from what 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. These people did not change their hearts and turn away from murder or evil magic, from their sexual immorality or stealing.