6. And in those days men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall long to die, but death shall flee from them.
7. And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads were crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.
8. And they had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.
9. And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots of many horses running into battle.
10. And they have tails like scorpions, and stings. And in their tails is their authority to harm men five months.
11. And they have over them a sovereign, the messenger of the pit of the deep, whose name in Heḇrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apolluon.
12. The first woe is past. See, two woes are still coming after this.
13. And the sixth messenger sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before Elohim,
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.