Revelation 16

1Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of God’s fury on the earth.”

2So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and painful, harmful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped its image.

3The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.

4The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.

5Then I heard the angel of the waters say, “You are just, the one who is and who was, the Holy One, because you have judged these things,

6because they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve it.”

7And I heard the altar say, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and just are your judgments.”

8The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire.

9People were scorched by the fierce heat, and they blasphemed the name of God, who has authority over these plagues, but they did not repent and give him glory.

10The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish

11and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they did not repent of their deeds.

12The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

13Then I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

14For they are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world to gather them for the battle on the great day of God, the Almighty.

15“Look, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes on, so that he will not go around naked and be seen in his shame.”

16And they gathered them to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

17The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

18There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder, and there was a great earthquake, such as had never happened since people have been on the earth, so great and powerful was that earthquake.

19The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

20Every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found.

21Huge hailstones, each weighing about a talent, came down from heaven on people, and people blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for that plague was extremely severe.