10. They have tails like scorpions, and they have stings, and in their tails lies their ability to hurt men for [the] five months.
11. Over them as king they have the angel of the Abyss (of the bottomless pit). In Hebrew his name is Abaddon [destruction], but in Greek he is called Apollyon [destroyer].
12. The first woe (calamity) has passed; behold, two others are yet to follow.
13. Then the sixth angel blew [his] trumpet, and from the four horns of the golden altar which stands before God I heard a solitary voice,
14. Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Liberate the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.
15. So the four angels who had been in readiness for that hour in the appointed day, month, and year were liberated to destroy a third of mankind.
16. The number of their troops of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten thousand (200,000,000); I heard what their number was.
17. And in [my] vision the horses and their riders appeared to me like this: the riders wore breastplates the color of fiery red and sapphire blue and sulphur (brimstone) yellow. The heads of the horses looked like lions' heads, and from their mouths there poured fire and smoke and sulphur (brimstone).
18. A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues–by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur (brimstone) that poured from the mouths of the horses.
19. For the power of the horses to do harm is in their mouths and also in their tails. Their tails are like serpents, for they have heads, and it is by means of them that they wound people.