Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionAnd 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.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GThe four angels who had been held in readiness for that hour, that day, that month, and that year were released to kill a third of humanity.
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageSo the four angels who had been prepared for that exact hour, day, month, and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleSo the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
Footnotes
The fourfold temporal specification — hour, day, month, year — is not poetic flourish but a statement of absolute divine precision: this release was scheduled to the exact moment in eternity past. ἡτοιμασμένοι is a perfect passive participle — "having been prepared" — meaning their readying was a completed act long before the moment of release. The passive ἐλύθησαν ("were released") continues the divine passive pattern running through the chapter: no agent of destruction operates outside God's sovereign timetable.
