After that I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind should blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.

say to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates."

Then the four angels who were held in readiness for that hour and day and month and year were let loose to kill one third of mankind.

Then I saw another angel ascend from the east with the seal of the living God, and he cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who had it in their power to harm the earth and the sea,