¹⁵ So the four angels were let free. They were ready for the hour, the day, the month, and the year when they would kill a third of the people.

¹⁶ In their army were many, many thousands of men on horses. I heard the number of them.

¹⁷ I saw what the horses and the men that sat on them looked like. The bodies of the men were covered by pieces of iron that looked red like fire and blue, and yellow. The heads of the horses were like lions' heads. Fire, smoke and dust came out of their mouths. The dust was sulphur which choked and killed people when it burned in the fire.