Revelation 16:8
6 For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”
7 And I heard the altar reply: “Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are Your judgments.”
Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire.
9 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 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
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire.
- KJV
- And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
- WEB
- The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
- ASV
- And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it was given unto it to scorch men with fire.
- DARBY
- And the fourth poured out his bowl on the sun; and it was given to it to burn men with fire.
- BLB
- And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun, and there was given to it to scorch men with fire.
- ÅB
- Og den fjerde engel tømte sin skål ut på solen; og den fikk makt til å brenne menneskene med ild;
- OTB
- Den fjerde engelen tømte sin skål ut over solen, og det ble gitt den makt til å brenne mennesker med ild.
- B1930
- Og den fjerde engel tømte sin skål ut på solen; og den fikk makt til å brenne menneskene med ild;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 2:20
The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.
Read in contextLuke 21:25
There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
Read in contextRevelation 14:18
Still another angel, with authority over the fire, came from the altar and called out in a loud voice to the angel with the sharp sickle, “Swing your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are ripe.”
Read in contextJonah 4:8
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Read in contextRevelation 7:16
‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’
Read in contextMatthew 13:6
But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.
Read in contextRevelation 9:2
The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
Read in contextRevelation 6:12
And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
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