The First Six Bowls of Wrath 1 UST Next I heard someone in the temple speak in a loud voice to the angels who had the seven bowls. He told them,“Go from here and pour out what you have in your seven bowls onto the earth. This is how God will punish people for their sins.” BSB BSB: Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”
2 UST So the first angel went and poured out what he had in his bowl onto the earth. As a result, terrible sores broke out on the people who had allowed the beast’ s servants to write the beast’ s name on them. These were the people who had worshiped the beast’ s image. BSB BSB: So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and loathsome, malignant sores broke out on those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
3 UST Then the second angel poured out what he had in his bowl on the ocean. As a result, the water of the sea turned into blood. That blood was decayed and stinky like the blood of a dead person. Every creature that lived in the ocean died. BSB BSB: And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned to blood like that of the dead, and every living thing in the sea died.
4 UST Then the third angel poured out what he had in his bowl upon the earth’ s rivers and springs. As a result, the water in them turned into blood. BSB BSB: And the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they turned to blood.
5 UST Then I heard the angel who was in charge of those waters say to God,“O God, you exist and have always existed. You are supremely holy. You are a fair judge of people. BSB BSB: And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.
6 UST The people who rebelled against you murdered your holy people and the prophets. So you are just in punishing them by giving them blood to drink.” BSB BSB: For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”
7 UST Then I heard the altar answer,“Yes, Lord God, you who rule over everything, you punish people completely fairly.” BSB BSB: And I heard the altar reply: “Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are Your judgments.”
8 UST Then the fourth angel poured out what he had in his bowl on the sun. As a result, the sun became so hot that it burned people very badly. BSB BSB: Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire.
9 UST Because the sun burned people so badly, they said evil things about God because he had the power to punish them in these ways. But they still refused to stop doing wrong things and they still refused to praise him. BSB BSB: And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues. Yet they did not repent and give Him glory.
10 UST Then the fifth angel poured out what he had in his bowl on the throne of the beast. As a result, it became dark where the beast ruled.{ Because it was like night all the time, the people whom the beast ruled could feel the pain of their terrible sores even more.} So they were biting their tongues because of this pain. BSB BSB: And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish
11 UST They also said evil things about God who rules in heaven because their sores were so painful. But they refused to stop doing wrong things. BSB BSB: and curse the God of heaven for their pains and sores. Yet they did not repent of their deeds.
12 UST Then the sixth angel poured out what he had in his bowl on the Euphrates River. As a result, the water in the river dried up so that the rulers from the eastern countries could cross it with their armies. BSB BSB: And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.
13 UST Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs. One came out of the mouth of the dragon. One came out of the mouth of the beast. And one came out of the mouth of the false prophet. BSB BSB: And I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet.
14 UST Now those spirits were demons that were able to do miracles. They went out to the rulers of the entire earth to gather their armies. Those armies will fight a battle on the important day when Almighty God punishes his enemies. BSB BSB: These are demonic spirits that perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
15 UST (I heard the Lord Jesus say,“You must listen carefully to me: I am coming unexpectedly, like a thief. It will be good for people who stay alert and keep on living in the right way. They will not feel shame when I return. They will be just like a person who keeps his clothes on so that he does not feel shame in front of other people.”) BSB BSB: “Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
16 UST The evil spirits gathered the rulers at a place whose name in the Hebrew language is Armageddon. BSB BSB: And they assembled the kings in the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
The Seventh Bowl of Wrath 17 UST Then the seventh angel poured what he had in his bowl into the air. As a result, someone said with a loud voice from the throne in the temple,“God has now finished punishing rebellious people.” BSB BSB: Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came from the throne in the temple, saying, “It is done!”
18 UST Then lightning flashed, thunder rumbled, and the earth shook violently. There had not been such a powerful earthquake during the whole time that people have lived on the earth. BSB BSB: And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake the likes of which had not occurred since men were upon the earth—so mighty was the great quake.
19 UST As a result of this earthquake, the giant city split into three parts. God also destroyed the cities in the other nations. God did not forget that the people of Babylon had sinned very much. So he made them experience the punishments they so justly deserved. BSB BSB: The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.
20 UST Also as a result of the earthquake, every island disappeared, and the mountains became flat land. BSB BSB: Then every island fled, and no mountain could be found.
21 UST Then huge hailstones, each weighing 33 kilograms, fell from the sky onto people. Then people said evil things about God because he had punished them in this terrible way with those huge, heavy hailstones. BSB BSB: And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.
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