⁴ So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”

⁵ The angel answered me, “These are the four spirits^[a] of the heavens, going forth from their stations to present themselves to the Lord of all the earth. ⁶ The driver with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, and the one with the white horses is following after them, and the one with the dappled horses is going toward the land of the south.”