The Sixth Trumpet

Then the sixth angel sounded [his] trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns[fn] of the golden altar before God 14 saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet,“Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

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[So] the four angels who had been prepared for [this] hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 And the number of mounted troops [was] a hundred million I heard their number.

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[Now] the horses and riders in [my] vision looked like this: [The riders] had breastplates [the colors of] fire, sapphire, and sulfur. The heads of the horses [were] like [the] heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceeded fire, smoke, and sulfur. 18 A third of mankind was killed by [the] three plagues[fn] of fire, smoke, and sulfur that proceeded from their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails [were] like snakes, having heads with which to inflict harm.

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Now the rest of mankind who vvv were not killed by these plagues vvv still did not repent of the works of their hands. vvv vvv They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see [or] hear [or] walk. 21 Furthermore, vvv they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, [and] theft. 10