Revelation 6:6-8

J.B. Phillips New Testament

The third rider: Famine

^5a When the Lamb broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come out!”

^5b-6 I looked again and there before my eyes was a black horse. Its rider had a pair of scales in his hand, and I heard a voice which seemed to come from the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a shilling, and three quarts of barley for a shilling—but no tampering with the oil or the wine!”

The fourth rider: Death

⁷ Then, when he broke the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth living creature cry, “Come out!”

⁸ Again I looked, and there appeared a horse sickly green in colour. The name of its rider was death, and the grave followed close behind him. A quarter of the earth was put into their power, to kill with the sword, by famine, by violence, and through the wild beasts of the earth.