Revelation 16
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The First Bowl
1Then I heard a loud voice from the sanctuary saying to the seven angels, # Rv 8:2,6; 15:1,6-8 “Go and pour out the seven # Other mss omit seven bowls # Rv 17:1; 21:9 of God’s wrath on the earth.” 2The first went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and severely painful sores # Lit and a severely painful sore # Ex 9:9-11; Dt 28:27,35; Jb 2:7; Is 1:6; Jr 30:12-17 broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.
The Second Bowl
3The second # Other mss add angel poured out his bowl into the sea. It turned to blood like a dead man’s, and all life # Lit and every soul of life in the sea died. # Rv 8:8-9
The Third Bowl
4The third # Other mss add angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood. # Ex 7:17-21 5I heard the angel of the waters say:
You are righteous,
who is and who was, # Rv 11:17 the Holy One, # Is 5:19; 41:20; 45:11
for You have decided these things.
6Because they poured out
the blood of the saints and the prophets, # 2Kg 9:7; Mt 23:30; Lk 11:50; Rv 17:6; 18:24
You also gave them blood to drink;
they deserve it! # Is 49:26
7Then I heard someone from the altar say:
Yes, Lord God, the Almighty,
true and righteous are Your judgments. # Ps 19:9; Rv 19:2
The Fourth Bowl
8The fourth # Other mss add angel poured out his bowl on the sun. He # Or It was given the power # Or authority to burn people with fire, 9and people were burned by the intense heat. So they blasphemed the name of God, # Lv 24:11; Is 52:5; Rm 2:24; 1Tm 6:1; Rv 13:6 who had the power # Or authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give Him glory. # Rv 9:20-21
The Fifth Bowl
10The fifth # Other mss add angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, # Rv 2:13; 13:2 and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. # Ex 10:21 People # Lit They gnawed their tongues because of their pain 11and blasphemed the God of heaven # Rv 13:6 because of their pains and their sores, yet they did not repent of their actions.
The Sixth Bowl
12The sixth # Other mss add angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, # Gn 2:14; 15:18; Dt 11:24; 1Kg 4:21; Rv 9:14 and its water was dried up # Ex 14:21-22,29; 15:19; Jos 2:10; 4:23; 5:1; 2Kg 2:8; Neh 9:11; Is 51:10 to prepare the way for the kings from the east. 13Then I saw three unclean spirits like frogs # Ex 8:2-14; Lv 11:9-12,41-47 coming from the dragon’s mouth, # Rv 12:9 from the beast’s mouth, # Rv 13:1 and from the mouth of the false prophet. # Rv 13:11-17 14For they are spirits of demons performing signs, # 2Th 2:9-10 who travel to the kings of the whole world to assemble them # 1Kg 22:20-23; Mt 24:24; 2Th 2:10 for the battle of the great day of God, the Almighty. # Ezk 38-39; Jl 2:11; 3:2; Zch 14:2; Rv 19:11-21
15“Look, I am coming like a thief. The one who is alert and remains clothed # Or and guards his clothes # Lk 12:35-40; 1Th 5:2,6-8 so that he may not go around naked and people see his shame # Rv 3:18 is blessed.” # Rv 1:3; 14:13; 19:9; 20:6; 22:7,14
16So they assembled them at the place called in Hebrew, Armagedon. # Other mss read Armageddon ; other mss read Harmegedon ; other mss read Mageddon ; other mss read Magedon # Traditionally the hill of Megiddo, a great city that guarded the pass between the coast and the valley of Jezreel or Esdraelon; Jdg 5:19; 2Kg 9:27 # Jdg 5:19; 2Kg 9:27; Ezk 38:8
The Seventh Bowl
17Then the seventh # Other mss add angel poured out his bowl into the air, # Or on the air and a loud voice came out of the sanctuary # Other mss add of heaven # Is 66:6 from the throne, saying, “It is done! ” 18There were flashes of lightning and rumblings of thunder. And a severe earthquake occurred like no other since man has been on the earth — so great was the quake. # Ex 19:16-19; Rv 4:5; 8:5; 11:19 19The great city # Rv 18:10,16,18,19,21 split into three parts, and the cities of the nations # Or the Gentile cities fell. Babylon the Great was remembered in God’s presence; He gave her the cup filled with the wine of His fierce anger. # Rv 14:19; 19:15 20Every island fled, and the mountains disappeared. # Lit mountains were not found # Ezk 38:20; Rv 6:14 21Enormous hailstones, each weighing about 100 pounds, # Lit about a talent ; talents varied in weight upwards from 75 pounds fell from the sky on people, and they blasphemed God # Rv 16:9,11 for the plague of hail because that plague was extremely severe. # Jos 10:11; Ezk 38:22
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