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Revelation 16:6

For they have shed the blood of the Saints and the Prophets, and so you have given them blood to drink. For they deserve this.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

In Context

5And I heard the Angel of the waters saying: “You are just, O Lord, who is and who was: the Holy One who has judged these things.

7And from the altar, I heard another one, saying, “Even now, O Lord God Almighty, your judgments are true and just.”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:42I will inebriate my arrows with blood, and my sword will devour flesh: from the blood of the slain and from the captive, from the exposed head of the enemies.’

Isaiah 49:26And I will feed your enemies their own flesh. And they will be inebriated with their own blood, as with new wine. And all flesh will know that I am the Lord, who saves you, and your Redeemer, the Strong One of Jacob.

Jeremiah 2:30I have struck your children to no effect; they have not accepted discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets. Your generation is like a raging lion.

Jeremiah 26:16And then the leaders and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: “There is no judgment of death against this man. For he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”

Ezekiel 32:6And I will irrigate the earth with your rotting blood upon the mountains. And the valleys will be filled with you.

Matthew 21:35And the farmers apprehended his servants; they struck one, and killed another, and stoned yet another.

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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