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The sixth angel blew the trumpet: fire and smoke and sulphur
Revelation 9: 13-21
And the sixth angel blew the trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet: Loose the four angels which are bound at the great river Euphrates! And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And the number of the armies of the horsemen was: two times ten thousands of ten thousands. I heard their number.
And the rest of the men, which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of their works of their hands; that they should not worship demons and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood, which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk; neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
And thus I saw in this vision the horses and them that sat on them. They had breastplates, fiery red and blue of hyacinth and sulphur colored. And the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions, and out of their mouths streamed fire and smoke and sulphur.
The power of these horses is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like snakes; they have heads and with them they do harm.
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and the smoke, and the sulphur, streaming out of their mouths.
And the sixth angel blew the trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet: Loose the four angels which are bound at the great river Euphrates! And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And the number of the armies of the horsemen was: two times ten thousands of ten thousands. I heard their number.
And thus I saw in this vision the horses and them that sat on them. They had breastplates, fiery red and blue of hyacinth and sulphur colored. And the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions, and out of their mouths streamed fire and smoke and sulphur.
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and the smoke, and the sulphur, streaming out of their mouths.
The power of these horses is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like snakes; they have heads and with them they do harm.
En de ovAnd the rest of the men, which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of their works of their hands; that they should not worship demons and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood, which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk; neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
In art
Revelation 9: 13-21
Carpet in Angers, 14th century, 6th trumpet, horsemen on horses with lion heads (photo Remy Jouan)
