Revelation 9:13-21

New Catholic Bible

¹³ The Sixth Trumpet: the Second Woe.^[a] Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice^[b] emanating from the horns of the gold altar that stood in the presence of God. ¹⁴ It said to the sixth angel who was holding the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

¹⁵ And so the four angels, who had been held in readiness for this very hour, day, month, and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.^{[c] 16} The number of their cavalry troops was two hundred million. This was the number I heard.

¹⁷ This is how I saw the horses and their riders in my vision. The riders wore breastplates in shades of red, blue, and yellow. The heads of the horses were like heads of lions, and issuing forth from their mouths were fire, smoke, and sulfur. ¹⁸ By these three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that poured forth from their mouths, a third of mankind was killed. ¹⁹ The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails. Their tails were like serpents, with heads that inflicted harm.

²⁰ However, the rest of mankind who survived these plagues did not repent of the work of their hands or cease their worship of demons^[d] and of idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. ²¹ Nor did they repent of their murders, their sorcery, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.