The Seventh Bowl

17 Then the seventh[a] poured out his bowl into the air,[b] and a loud voice came out of the temple[c](A) from the throne, saying, “It is done!” 18 There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. And a severe earthquake occurred like no other since people have been on the earth, so great was the quake.(B) 19 The great city(C) split into three parts, and the cities of the nations[d] fell. Babylon the Great was remembered in God’s presence; he gave her the cup filled with the wine of his fierce anger.(D) 20 Every island fled, and the mountains disappeared.(E) 21 Enormous hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds,[e] fell from the sky on people, and they blasphemed God(F) for the plague of hail because that plague was extremely severe.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 16:17 Other mss add angel
  2. 16:17 Or bowl on the air
  3. 16:17 Other mss add of heaven
  4. 16:19 Or the Gentile cities
  5. 16:21 Lit about a talent; talents varied in weight upwards from 75 pounds

17 And the seventh poured out his bowl on the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” 18 And there were lightnings and sounds and thunders, and there was a great earthquake, as has not happened from the time humanity has been on the earth—so great in this way was the earthquake. 19 And the great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of his furious wrath.[a] 20 And every island fled, and mountains were not found. 21 And large hailstones, weighing about a hundred pounds,[b] came down from the sky upon people, and the people blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, because the plague of it was very great.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 16:19 Literally “of the anger of the wrath of him”
  2. Revelation 16:21 Literally “weighing a talent”; a talent was 125 Roman pounds (of 12 ounces each), so this is just under 100 lbs or 43 kg