The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Revelation 16
1 I heard a loud voice out of the temple,
saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour
out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on
the earth!”
2 The first went, and poured out his bowl
into the earth, and it became a harmful
andpainful sore onthepeople whohadthe
mark of the beast, and who worshiped his
image.
3 The second angel poured out his bowl
into the sea, and it became blood as of a
dead man. Every living thing in the sea
died.
4 The third poured out his bowl into the
rivers and springs of water, and they
became blood.
5 I heard the angel of the waters saying,
“You are righteous, who are and who were,
OHoly One, because youhave judgedthese
things.
6 For they poured out the blood of saints
and prophets, and you have given them
blood to drink. They deserve this.”
7 I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God,
the Almighty, true and righteous are your
judgments.”
8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the
sun, and it was given to him to scorch men
with fire.
9 People were scorched with great heat,
and people blasphemed the name of God
who has the power over these plagues.
They didn’t repent and give him glory.
10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the
throne of the beast, and his kingdom was
darkened. They gnawed their tongues
because of the pain,
11 and they blasphemed the God of
heaven because of their pains and their
sores. They still didn’t repent of their
works.
12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the
great river, the Euphrates. Its water was
dried up, that the way might be prepared
for the kings that come from the sunrise.†
13 I saw coming out of the mouth of the
dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast,
and out of the mouth of the false prophet,
three unclean spirits, something like frogs;
14 for they are spirits of demons, performing
signs, which go out to the kings of
the whole inhabited earth, to gather them
together for the war of that great day of
God the Almighty.
15 “Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is
he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so
that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see
his shame.”
16 He gathered them together into the
place which is called in Hebrew, “Harmagedon”.
17 The seventh poured out his bowl into
the air. A loud voice came out ofthe temple
of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is
done!”
18 There were lightnings, sounds, and
thunders; and there was a great earthquake
such as has not happened since
there were men on the earth—so great an
earthquake and so mighty.
19 The great city was divided into three
parts, and the cities of the nations fell.
Babylon the great was remembered in the
sight of God, to give to her the cup of the
wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 Every island fled away, and the mountains
were not found.
21 Great hailstones, about the weight of
a talent,‡ came down out of the sky on
people. People blasphemed God because
ofthe plague ofthehail,for this plague was
exceedingly severe.