Revelation 16:6
for they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: they are worthy.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7And I heard the altar saying, Yea, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
Isaiah 49:26And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Jeremiah 2:30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 26:16Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.
Ezekiel 32:6I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of thee.
Matthew 21:35And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned 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 →