Revelation 16:5

And I heard the agent of the waters saying, Thou are righteous who is and was--the Divine--because thou judged these things.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.

In Context

4And the third agent poured out his bowl into the rivers and into the springs of the waters, and they became blood.

6Because they poured out the blood of the sanctified and prophets, and thou have given them blood to drink--they are deserving.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Psalms 145:17LORD is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

Daniel 9:14Therefore LORD has watched over the evil, and brought it upon us, for LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

Romans 2:5But according to thy hardness, and thy impenitent heart, thou store up wrath to thyself in the day of wrath, and revelation, and righteous judgment of God,

2 Thessalonians 1:5being evidence of the righteous judgment of God, for you to be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also ye suffer.

Revelation 1:8I am the Alpha and the Omega, says Lord, the God who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 16:2-8

The Seven Vials. ( a. d. 95.) 1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. 2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. 3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. 4 And the… Read the whole commentary →

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