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Revelation 16:5
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Second Bowl: The Sea Turns to Blood

3 Then the second angel poured out his bowl aon the sea, and bit became blood as of a dead man; cand every living creature in the sea died.  

Third Bowl: The Waters Turn to Blood

4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl aon the rivers and springs of water, band they became blood.  
5 And I heard the angel of the waters saying:
a“You are righteous,1 O Lord,
The One bwho is and who was and who is to be,
Because You have judged these things. 
6 For athey have shed the blood bof saints and prophets,
cAnd You have given them blood to drink.
1For it is their just due.”  
7 And I heard1 another from the altar saying, “Even so, aLord God Almighty, btrue and righteous are Your judgments.”  

Fourth Bowl: Men Are Scorched

8 Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl aon the sun, band power was given to him to scorch men with fire.  
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and they ablasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; band they did not repent cand give Him glory.  
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Revelation 16:5

The angel of the waters (tou aggelou ton udatwn). Genitive case object of hkousa. See Revelation 7:1 for the four angels in control of the winds and Revelation 14:18 for the angel with power over fire. The rabbis spoke also of an angel with power over the earth and another over the sea.

Which art and which wast (o wn kai o hn). See this peculiar idiom for God's eternity with o as relative before hn in Revelation 1:4, Revelation 1:8; Revelation 4:8, but without o erxomenov (the coming on, the one who is to be) there for the future as in Revelation 11:17.

Thou Holy One (o osiov). Nominative form, but vocative case, as often. Note both dikaiov and osiov applied to God as in Revelation 3:1; Revelation 15:3 f.

Because thou didst thus judge (oti tauta ekrinav). Reason for calling God dikaiov and osiov. The punishment on the waters is deserved. First aorist active indicative of krinw, to judge.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 16:5:

Revelation 1:4
Revelation 7:1
Revelation 7:15
Revelation 11:17
Revelation 15:4
Revelation 19:11

 

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