"Set at liberty the four angels who are prisoners near
the great river Euphrates."
009:015 And the four angels who had been kept in readiness for
that hour, day, month, and year, were set at liberty,
so that they might kill a third part of mankind.
009:016 The number of the cavalry was two hundred millions;
I heard their number.
009:017 And this was the appearance of the horses which I saw in my vision--
and of their riders. The body-armour of the riders was red,
blue and yellow; and the horses' heads were shaped like
the heads of lions, while from their mouths there came fire
and smoke and sulphur.
009:018 By these three plagues a third part of mankind were destroyed--
by the fire and the smoke, and by the sulphur which came
from their mouths.
009:019 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails;
their tails being like serpents, and having heads, and it
is with them that they inflict injury.
009:020 But the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues,
did not even then repent and leave the things they had made,
so as to cease worshipping the demons, and the idols of gold
and silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which can neither see
nor hear, nor move.
009:021 Nor did they repent of their murders, their practice of magic,
their fornication, or their thefts.
010:001 Then I saw another strong angel coming down from Heaven.
He was robed in a cloud, and over his head was the rainbow.
His face was like the sun, and his feet resembled pillars of fire.
010:002 In his hand he held a small scroll unrolled; and, planting his
right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,