Isaiah 26:21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 For the Lord comes out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
the earth will disclose the blood shed on it
and will no longer cover its slain.(A)
Isaiah 18:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 For thus the Lord said to me:
“I will quietly look from my dwelling
like clear heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”(A)
Revelation 6:9-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 When he broke the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered for the word of God and for the testimony they had given;(A) 10 they cried out with a loud voice, “Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?”(B) 11 They were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number would be complete both of their fellow servants and of their brothers and sisters who were soon to be killed as they themselves had been killed.(C)
Read full chapter
Jude 14-15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 It was also about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “See, the Lord is coming[a] with ten thousands of his holy ones,(A) 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly[b] of all the deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
Read full chapter
Isaiah 13:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 I will punish the world for its evil
and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant
and lay low the insolence of tyrants.(A)
Job 16:18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 “O earth, do not cover my blood;
let my outcry find no resting place.(A)
Micah 1:3-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 For the Lord is coming out of his place
and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.(A)
4 Then the mountains will melt under him,
and the valleys will burst open
like wax near the fire,
like waters poured down a slope.(B)
5 All this is for the transgression of Jacob
and for the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the transgression of Jacob?
Is it not Samaria?
And what is the high place[a] of Judah?
Is it not Jerusalem?(C)
6 Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country,
a place for planting vineyards.
I will pour down her stones into the valley
and uncover her foundations.(D)
7 All her images shall be beaten to pieces,
all her wages shall be burned with fire,
and all her idols I will lay waste;
for as the wages of a prostitute she gathered them,
and as the wages of a prostitute they shall again be used.(E)
The Doom of the Cities of Judah
8 For this I will lament and wail;
I will go barefoot and naked;
I will make lamentation like the jackals
and mourning like the ostriches.(F)
Footnotes
- 1.5 Heb what are the high places
Revelation 16:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 because they shed the blood of saints and prophets,
you have given them blood to drink.
It is what they deserve!”
2 Thessalonians 1:7-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 and to give relief to the afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels(A) 8 in a fiery flame, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.(B) 9 These will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,(C) 10 when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marveled at on that day among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
Read full chapter
Luke 11:50
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
50 so that this generation may be charged with the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world,
Read full chapter
Luke 11:40
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
40 You fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 24:7-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 For the blood she shed is inside it;
she placed it on a bare rock;
she did not pour it out on the ground,
to cover it with earth.(A)
8 To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance,
I have placed the blood she shed
on a bare rock,
so that it may not be covered.
Ezekiel 10:18-19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 Then the glory of the Lord went out from the entryway of the temple and stopped above the cherubim. 19 The cherubim lifted up their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight as they went out with the wheels beside them. They stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the Lord, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.(A)
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 10:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.(A) 4 Then the glory of the Lord rose up from the cherub to the entryway of the temple; the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the glory of the Lord.(B) 5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty[a] when he speaks.(C)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 10.5 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
Ezekiel 9:3-6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the entryway of the temple. The Lord[a] called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing case at his side(A) 4 and said to him, “Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of those who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”(B) 5 To the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him and kill; your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.(C) 6 Cut down old men, young men and young women, little children and women, but touch no one who has the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the house.(D)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 9.3 Heb he
Ezekiel 8:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 He said to me, “Mortal, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? Yet you will see still greater abominations.”(A)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 30:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:
Because you reject this word
and put your trust in oppression and deceit
and rely on them,(A)
13 therefore this iniquity shall become for you
like a break in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse,
whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;(B)
14 its breaking is like that of a potter’s vessel
that is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a sherd is found
for taking fire from the hearth
or dipping water out of the cistern.(C)
Psalm 50:2-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth.(A)
3 Our God comes and does not keep silent;
before him is a devouring fire
and a mighty tempest all around him.(B)
Numbers 35:32-33
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
32 Nor shall you accept ransom for one who has fled to a city of refuge, enabling the fugitive to return to live in the land before the death of the high priest. 33 You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 4:10-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
10 And the Lord said, “What have you done? Listen, your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!(A) 11 And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
Read full chapter
Revelation 18:24
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
24 And in you[a] was found the blood of prophets and of saints
and of all who have been slaughtered on earth.”(A)
Footnotes
- 18.24 Gk her
Hosea 5:14-15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 For I will be like a lion to Ephraim
and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I myself will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.(A)
15 I will return again to my place
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face.
In their distress they will beg my favor:(B)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.