6. During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7. The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.
8. Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.
9. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
10. They had tails with stings, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.
11. They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
12. The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
13. The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God.
14. It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, ‘Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.’
15. And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
16. The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.
17. The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulphur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulphur.
18. A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulphur that came out of their mouths.