14. saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, “Release the four messengers, those having been bound at the great river Euphrates.”
15. And the four messengers, those having been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
16. And the number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million, and I heard the number of them.
17. And this is how I saw the horses in the vision and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, and hyacinth blue, and sulphur yellow. And the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, and smoke, and sulphur.
18. A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur which came out of their mouths.