Revelation 9:15
Good News Translation
The four angels were released; for this very hour of this very day of this very month and year they had been kept ready to kill a third of all the human race.

New Revised Standard Version
So the four angels were released, who had been held ready for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, to kill a third of humankind.

Contemporary English Version
The four angels had been prepared for this very hour and day and month and year. Now they were set free to kill a third of all people.

New American Bible
So the four angels were released, who were prepared for this hour, day, month, and year to kill a third of the human race.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year: for to kill the third part of men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year: for to kill the third part of men.

for.

Revelation 9:5,10 And it was given unto them that they should not kill them: but that they should torment them five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man. . . .

for to.

Revelation 9:18 And by these three plagues was slain the third part of men, by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouths.

Revelation 8:7,9,11,12 And the first angel sounded the trumpet: and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood: and it was cast on the earth. And the third part of the earth was burnt up: and the third part of the trees was burnt up: and all green grass was burnt up. . . .

Context
The Sixth Trumpet
14Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet: Loose the four angels who are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year: for to kill the third part of men. 16And the number of the army of horsemen was twenty thousand times ten thousand. And I heard the number of them.…
Cross References
Revelation 8:7
And the first angel sounded the trumpet: and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood: and it was cast on the earth. And the third part of the earth was burnt up: and the third part of the trees was burnt up: and all green grass was burnt up.

Revelation 8:8
And the second angel sounded the trumpet: and, as it were, a great mountain, burning with fire, was cast into the sea. And the third part of the sea became blood.

Revelation 8:9
And the third part of those creatures died which had life in the sea: and the third part of the ships was destroyed.

Revelation 8:10
And the third angel sounded the trumpet: and a great star fell from heaven, burning as it were a torch. And it fell on the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters:

Revelation 8:11
And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became wormwood. And many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Revelation 8:12
And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet: and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened. And the day did not shine for a third part of it: and the night in like manner.

Revelation 9:18
And by these three plagues was slain the third part of men, by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouths.

Revelation 20:7
And when the thousand years shall be finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go forth and seduce the nations which are over the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog: and shall gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Revelation 9:14
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