Revelation 16
1 I heard a loud voice from the sanctuary saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s fury.”
2 The first went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and a foul, malignant sore appeared on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
3 The second poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead person, and every living creature in the sea died.
4 The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, “You are just, you who are and who were, the Holy One, because you judged these things.
6 Because they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you gave them blood to drink; they deserve it.”
7 And I heard the altar say, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and just are your judgments.”
8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire.
9 People were scorched by intense heat and blasphemed the name of God, who has authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.
10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness; people gnawed their tongues in pain.
11 They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pain and their sores, and they did not repent of their deeds.
12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water dried up, to prepare the way for the kings coming from the rising of the sun.
13 Then I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, the mouth of the beast, and the mouth of the false prophet.
14 They are spirits of demons that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world to gather them for the war of the great day of God the Almighty.
15 “Look, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he may not walk around naked and have his shame seen.”
16 And they gathered them at the place called Armageddon in Hebrew.
17 The seventh poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came from the sanctuary, from the throne, saying, “It is done.”
18 There were flashes of lightning, sounds, and peals of thunder, and there was a great earthquake, unlike any since human beings came to be on the earth—a quake so powerful, so great.
19 The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And God remembered great Babylon, to give it the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.
20 Every island fled, and the mountains could no longer be found.
21 A great hailstorm, with hailstones weighing a talent each, fell from the sky on the people; and the people blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, for its plague was terribly great.
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