18 The nations raged,
    but (A)your wrath came,
    and (B)the time for the dead to be judged,
and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,
    and (C)those who fear your name,
    both small and great,
and (D)for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”

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And from the throne came a voice saying,

(A)“Praise our God,
    all you his servants,
(B)you who fear him,
    small and great.”

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12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and (A)books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is (B)the book of life. And (C)the dead were judged by what was written in the books, (D)according to what they had done.

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10 (A)If anyone is to be taken captive,
    to captivity he goes;
(B)if anyone is to be slain with the sword,
    with the sword must he be slain.

(C)Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

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10 They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, (A)holy and true, (B)how long (C)before you will judge and (D)avenge our blood on (E)those who dwell on the earth?” 11 Then they were each given (F)a white robe and (G)told to rest a little longer, (H)until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers[a] (I)should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 6:11 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters

12 “Behold, (A)I am coming soon, (B)bringing my recompense with me, (C)to repay each one for what he has done.

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15 (A)As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
    I will show them[a] marvelous things.
16 (B)The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
(C)they shall lay their hands on their mouths;
    their ears shall be deaf;
17 (D)they shall lick the dust like a serpent,
    like the crawling things of the earth;
(E)they shall come trembling out of their strongholds;
    (F)they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God,
    and they shall be in fear of you.

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  1. Micah 7:15 Hebrew him

13 he will (A)bless those who fear the Lord,
    (B)both the small and the great.

14 May the Lord (C)give you increase,
    you and your children!

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11 For (A)as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so great is his (B)steadfast love toward (C)those who fear him;

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Then I saw (A)thrones, and (B)seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw (C)the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those (D)who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. (E)They came to life and (F)reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.

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And one of (A)the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven (B)golden bowls full of the wrath of God (C)who lives forever and ever,

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The Seven Angels with Seven Plagues

15 Then (A)I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, (B)seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished.

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10 he also will drink (A)the wine of God's wrath, (B)poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and (C)he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

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15 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave[a] and free, (A)hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 16 (B)calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of (C)him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for (D)the great day of their wrath has come, and (E)who can stand?”

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  1. Revelation 6:15 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

25 (A)choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy (B)the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 (C)He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to (D)the reward.

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27 And just as (A)it is appointed for man to die once, and (B)after that comes judgment,

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The Judgment at Christ's Coming

This is (A)evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be (B)considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— since indeed God considers it (C)just (D)to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant (E)relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when (F)the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven (G)with his mighty angels

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50 And (A)his mercy is for those who fear him
    from generation to generation.

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12 (A)Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for (B)so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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Proclaim this among the nations:
(A)Consecrate for war;[a]
    stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near;
    let them come up.
10 (B)Beat your plowshares into swords,
    and (C)your pruning hooks into spears;
    let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”

11 (D)Hasten and come,
    all you surrounding nations,
    and gather yourselves there.
(E)Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
12 Let the nations stir themselves up
    and come up to (F)the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
(G)for there I will sit to judge
    all the surrounding nations.

13 (H)Put in the sickle,
    (I)for the harvest is ripe.
(J)Go in, tread,
    (K)for the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
    for their evil is great.

14 Multitudes, multitudes,
    in the valley of decision!
For (L)the day of the Lord is near
    in the valley of decision.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:9 Or Consecrate a war

The Ancient of Days Reigns

“As I looked,

(A)thrones were placed,
    and the (B)Ancient of Days took his seat;
(C)his clothing was white as snow,
    and (D)the hair of his head like pure wool;
his throne was fiery flames;
    (E)its wheels were burning fire.
10 (F)A stream of fire issued
    and came out from before him;
(G)a thousand thousands (H)served him,
    (I)and ten thousand times ten thousand (J)stood before him;
the (K)court sat in judgment,
    and (L)the books were opened.

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The Lord's Day of Vengeance

63 Who is this who comes from (A)Edom,
    in crimsoned garments from (B)Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
    (C)marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
    mighty to save.”

Why is your (D)apparel red,
    and your garments like his (E)who treads in the winepress?

(F)“I have trodden the winepress alone,
    (G)and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood[a] spattered on my garments,
    and stained all my apparel.
(H)For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and my year of redemption[b] had come.
I looked, but (I)there was no one to help;
    I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
    and my wrath upheld me.
I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
    (J)I made them drunk in my wrath,
    and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:3 Or their juice; also verse 6
  2. Isaiah 63:4 Or the year of my redeemed

Judgment on the Nations

34 Draw near, (A)O nations, to hear,
    and give attention, O peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;
    the world, and all that comes from it.
For the Lord is enraged against all the nations,
    and furious against all their host;
    he has (B)devoted them to destruction,[a] has given them over for slaughter.
Their slain shall be cast out,
    and (C)the stench of their corpses shall rise;
    (D)the mountains shall flow with their blood.
(E)All the host of heaven shall rot away,
    and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall fall,
    as leaves fall from the vine,
    like leaves falling from the fig tree.

For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
    behold, it descends for judgment upon (F)Edom,
    upon the people (G)I have devoted to destruction.
The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
    it is gorged with fat,
    with the blood of lambs and goats,
    with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
(H)For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
(I)Wild oxen shall (J)fall with them,
    and (K)young steers with (L)the mighty bulls.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
    and their soil shall be gorged with fat.

(M)For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
(N)And the streams of Edom[b] shall be turned into pitch,
    and her soil into sulfur;
    her land shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day (O)it shall not be quenched;
    (P)its smoke shall go up forever.
(Q)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
    none shall pass through it forever and ever.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:2 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 5
  2. Isaiah 34:9 Hebrew her streams

19 (A)Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.
    You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For (B)your dew is a dew of light,
    and the earth will give birth to the dead.

20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
    and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves (C)for a little while
    until the fury has passed by.
21 (D)For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place
    to punish the inhabitants of (E)the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
    and will no more cover its slain.

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13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. (A)Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 12:13 Or the duty of all mankind

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