¹⁵ And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were ^(A)released, so that they would kill a ^(B)third of mankind. ¹⁶ The number of the armies of the horsemen was ^(C)two hundred million; ^(D)I heard the number of them. ¹⁷ And this is how I saw ^(E)in my vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire, of hyacinth, and of ^[a](F)brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and ^(G)out of their mouths *came fire and smoke and ^[b](H)brimstone.