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.
19. For the authority of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents, having heads. And with them they do harm.
20. And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship the demons, and idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk.
21. And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their drug sorceries, nor of their whoring, nor of their thefts.