^{7 Ref} The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people's faces.

^{8 Ref} They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

^{9 Ref} They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.

^{10 Ref} They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

^{11 Ref} They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon,"{"Abaddon" is a Hebrew word that means ruin, destruction, or the place of destruction} but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon."{"Apollyon" means "Destroyer."}

^{12 Ref} The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.

^{13 Ref} The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

^{14 Ref} saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"

^{15 Ref} The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.

^{16 Ref} The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million{literally, "ten thousands of ten thousands"}. I heard the number of them.

^{17 Ref} Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.

^{18 Ref} By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.

^{19 Ref} For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.