6. In those days, people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
7. Now the appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were something like crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces.
8. They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.
9. They had chests like iron breastplates; and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle.
10. They have tails like scorpions with stingers; and in their tails is their power to harm people for five months.
11. They have as king over them the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
12. The first woe is past. Behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
13. The sixth angel trumpeted, and I heard a single voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God.
14. It said to the sixth angel, the one holding the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
15. So the four angels—who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year—were released to kill a third of mankind.
16. The number of mounted troops was two hundred million—I heard their number.