Revelation 16:8

⁶ For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

⁷ And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

⁹ And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

¹⁰ And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

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 shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
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Luke 21:25
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
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Revelation 14:18
And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
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Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
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Revelation 7:16
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
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Matthew 13:6
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
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Revelation 9:2
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
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Revelation 6:12
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
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