Chapter 16
1 I heard a loud voice out of the temple , saying to the seven angels, " Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth !"
2 The first went , and poured out his bowl into the earth , and it became a harmful and painful sore on the people who had the mark of the beast , and who worshipped his image .
3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea , and it became blood as of a dead man . Every living thing in the sea died .
4 The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water , and they became blood.
5 I heard the angel of the waters saying , " You are righteous , who are and who were , O Holy One , because you have judged these things .
6 For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets , and you have given them blood to drink . They deserve this ."
7 I heard the altar saying , " Yes , Lord God , the Almighty , true and righteous are your judgements."
8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun , and it was given to him to scorch men with fire .
9 People were scorched with great heat , and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues . They didn’ t repent and give him glory .
10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast , and his kingdom was darkened . They gnawed their tongues because of the pain ,
11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores . They still didn’ t repent of their works .
12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river , the Euphrates . Its water was dried up , that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.
13 I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon , and out of the mouth of the beast , and out of the mouth of the false prophet , three unclean spirits , something like frogs;
14 for they are spirits of demons , performing signs , which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth , to gather them together for the war of that great day of God the Almighty .
15 " Behold , I come like a thief . Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes , so that he doesn’ t walk naked , and they see his shame."
16 He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew , "Harmagedon".
17 The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne , saying , " It is done !"
18 There were lightnings, sounds , and thunders ; and there was a great earthquake such as has not happened since there were men on the earth — so great an earthquake and so mighty .
19 The great city was divided into three parts , and the cities of the nations fell . Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God , to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath .
20 Every island fled away , and the mountains were not found .
21 Great hailstones , about the weight of a talent , came down out of the sky on people . People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail , for this plague was exceedingly severe .