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Revelation 16:2–21

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2So the first angel went and poured out his bowl 1aon the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant bsore on the 2people cwho had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.

3The second angel poured out his bowl ainto the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living 1thing in the sea died.

4Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the arivers and the springs of waters; and they bbecame blood.

5And I heard the angel of the waters saying, “aRighteous are You, bwho are and who were, O cHoly One, because You djudged these things;

6for they poured out athe blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them bblood to drink. They 1deserve it.”

7And I heard athe altar saying, “Yes, O bLord God, the Almighty, ctrue and righteous are Your judgments.”

8The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon athe sun, band it was given to it to scorch men with fire.

9Men were scorched with 1fierce heat; and they ablasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they bdid not repent so as to cgive Him glory.

10Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the athrone of the beast, and his kingdom became bdarkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain,

11and they ablasphemed the bGod of heaven because of their pains and their csores; and they ddid not repent of their deeds.

12The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the agreat river, the Euphrates; and bits water was dried up, so that cthe way would be prepared for the kings dfrom the 1east.

Armageddon

13And I saw coming out of the mouth of the adragon and out of the mouth of the bbeast and out of the mouth of the cfalse prophet, three dunclean spirits like efrogs;

14for they are aspirits of demons, bperforming signs, which go out to the kings of the cwhole 1world, to dgather them together for the war of the egreat day of God, the Almighty.

15(“Behold, aI am coming like a thief. bBlessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, cso that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.”)

16And they agathered them together to the place which bin Hebrew is called 1cHar-Magedon.

Seventh Bowl of Wrath

17Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon athe air, and a bloud voice came out of the 1ctemple from the throne, saying, “dIt is done.”

18And there were flashes of alightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was ba great earthquake, csuch as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty.

19aThe great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the 1nations fell. bBabylon the great was cremembered before God, to give her dthe cup of the wine of 2His fierce wrath.

20And aevery island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

21And ahuge 1hailstones, about 2one hundred pounds each, *came down from heaven upon men; and men bblasphemed God because of the cplague of the hail, because its plague *was extremely 3severe.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit into
  2. 2Gr anthropoi
  3. 1Lit soul
  4. 1Lit are worthy
  5. 1Lit great
  6. 1Lit rising of the sun
  7. 1Lit inhabited earth
  8. 1Two early mss read Armageddon
  9. 1Or sanctuary
  10. 1Or Gentiles
  11. 2Lit wrath of His anger
  12. 1Lit hail
  13. 2Lit the weight of a talent
  14. *A star (*) is used to mark verbs that are historical presents in the Greek which have been translated with an English past tense in order to conform to modern usage. The translators recognized that in some contexts the present tense seems more unexpected and unjustified to the English reader than a past tense would have been. But Greek authors frequently used the present tense for the sake of heightened vividness, thereby transporting their readers in imagination to the actual scene at the time of occurence. However, the translators felt that it would be wise to change these historical presents to English past tenses.
  15. 3Lit great

Cross references

  1. aRev 8:7
  2. bEx 9:9–11; Deut 28:35; Rev 16:11
  3. cRev 13:15–17; 14:9
  4. aEx 7:17–21; Rev 8:8f; 11:6
  5. aRev 8:10
  6. bEx 7:17–20; Ps 78:44; Rev 11:6
  7. aJohn 17:25
  8. bRev 11:17
  9. cRev 15:4
  10. dRev 6:10
  11. aRev 17:6; 18:24
  12. bIs 49:26; Luke 11:49–51
  13. aRev 6:9; 14:18
  14. bRev 1:8
  15. cRev 15:3; 19:2
  16. aRev 6:12
  17. bRev 14:18
  18. aRev 16:11, 21
  19. bRev 2:21
  20. cRev 11:13
  21. aRev 13:2
  22. bEx 10:21f; Is 8:22; Rev 8:12; 9:2
  23. aRev 16:9, 21
  24. bRev 11:13
  25. cRev 16:2
  26. dRev 2:21
  27. aRev 9:14
  28. bIs 11:15f; 44:27; Jer 51:36
  29. cIs 41:2, 25; 46:11
  30. dRev 7:2
  31. aRev 12:3
  32. bRev 13:1
  33. cRev 13:11, 14; 19:20; 20:10
  34. dRev 18:2
  35. eEx 8:6
  36. a1 Tim 4:1
  37. bRev 13:13
  38. cRev 3:10
  39. d1 Kin 22:21–23; Rev 17:14; 19:19; 20:8
  40. eRev 6:17
  41. aMatt 24:43f; Luke 12:39f; Rev 3:3, 11
  42. bLuke 12:37
  43. cRev 3:18
  44. aRev 19:19
  45. bRev 9:11
  46. cJudg 5:19; 2 Kin 23:29f; 2 Chr 35:22; Zech 12:11
  47. aEph 2:2
  48. bRev 11:15
  49. cRev 14:15
  50. dRev 10:6; 21:6
  51. aRev 4:5
  52. bRev 6:12
  53. cDan 12:1; Matt 24:21
  54. aRev 11:8; 17:18; 18:10, 18f, 21
  55. bRev 14:8
  56. cRev 18:5
  57. dRev 14:10
  58. aRev 6:14; 20:11
  59. aRev 8:7; 11:19
  60. bRev 16:9, 11
  61. cEx 9:18–25