Then I heard a loud voice from athe sanctuary, saying to the bseven angels, “Go and cpour out 1on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”Lit intoRev 11:19Rev 15:1Ps 79:6; Jer 10:25; Ezek 22:31; Zeph 3:8; Rev 16:2ff
2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl 1aon the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant bsore on the 2people cwho have the mark of the beast and who worship his image.Lit intoGr anthropoiRev 8:7Ex 9:9-11; Deut 28:35; Rev 16:11Rev 13:15-17; 14:9
3 And the 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.Lit soulEx 7:17-21; Rev 8:8f; 11:6
4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the arivers and the springs of waters, and they bbecame blood.Rev 8:10Ex 7:17-20; Ps 78:44; Rev 11:6 5 And I heard the angel of the waters saying, “aRighteous are You, bwho is and who was, O cHoly One, because You djudged these things;John 17:25Rev 11:17Rev 15:4Rev 6:10 6 for they poured out athe blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them bblood to drink. They 1deserve it.”Lit are worthyRev 17:6; 18:24Is 49:26; Luke 11:49-51 7 And I heard athe altar saying, “Yes, O 1bLord God, the Almighty, ctrue and righteous are Your judgments.”In OT, Yahweh, cf. Amos 4:13Rev 6:9; 14:18Rev 1:8Rev 15:3; 19:2
8 And the fourth angel poured out his bowl upon athe sun, band it was given to it to scorch men with fire.Rev 6:12Rev 14:18 9 And men were scorched with 1fierce heat, and they ablasphemed the name of God who has the authority over these plagues, and they bdid not repent so as to cgive Him glory.Lit greatRev 16:11, 21Rev 2:21Rev 11:13
10 Then 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,Rev 13:2Ex 10:21f; Is 8:22; Rev 8:12; 9:2 11 and they ablasphemed the bGod of heaven because of their pains and their csores, and they ddid not repent of their deeds.Rev 16:9, 21Rev 11:13Rev 16:2Rev 2:21
12 And the 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.Lit rising of the sunRev 9:14Is 11:15f; 44:27; Jer 51:36Is 41:2, 25; 46:11Rev 7:2 13 Then 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;Rev 12:3Rev 13:1Rev 13:11, 14; 19:20; 20:10Rev 18:2Ex 8:6 14 for they are aspirits of demons, bdoing 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.Lit inhabited earth1 Tim 4:1Rev 13:13Rev 3:101 Kin 22:21-23; Rev 17:14; 19:19; 20:8Rev 6:17 15 (“Behold, aI am coming like a thief. bBlessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his garments, cso that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.”)Matt 24:43f; Luke 12:39f; Rev 3:3, 11Luke 12:37Rev 3:18 16 And they agathered them together to the place which bin Hebrew is called 1cHar-Magedon.Two early mss ArmagedonRev 19:19Rev 9:11Judg 5:19; 2 Kin 23:29f; 2 Chr 35:22; Zech 12:11
17 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon athe air, and a bloud voice came out of the csanctuary from the throne, saying, “dIt is done.”Eph 2:2Rev 11:15Rev 14:15Rev 10:6; 21:6 18 And 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.Rev 4:5Rev 6:12Dan 12:1; Matt 24:21 19 aAnd the 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 the wrath of His rage.Or GentilesRev 11:8; 17:18; 18:10, 18f, 21Rev 14:8Rev 18:5Rev 14:10 20 And aevery island fled away, and the mountains were not found.Rev 6:14; 20:11 21 And ahuge 1hailstones, about one 2talent each, *came down from heaven upon men; and men bblasphemed God because of the cplague of the hail, because its plague *was extremely 3severe.Lit hailApprox. 100 lb. or 45 kgLit greatRev 8:7; 11:19Rev 16:9, 11Ex 9:18-25