Revelation 9:10-19

10They have tails like scorpions, and stingers; and in their tails is their power to hurt people for five months.

11They have as king over them, the angel of the abyss (the bottomless pit); in Hebrew his name is Abaddon (destruction), and in Greek he is called Apollyon (destroyer-king).

12The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

13Then the sixth angel sounded [his trumpet], and I heard a solitary voice from the four horns of the golden altar which stands before God,

14saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

15So the four angels, who had been prepared for the [appointed] hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.

16The number of the troops of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten thousand (two hundred million); I heard the number of them.

17And this is how I saw the horses and their riders in my vision: the riders had breastplates [the color] of fire and of hyacinth (sapphire blue) and of brimstone (yellow); and the heads of the horses looked like the heads of lions; and from out of their mouths came fire and smoke and brimstone (burning sulfur).

18A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone that came from the mouths of the horses.

19For the power of the horses [to do harm] is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and it is with them that they do harm.