12 And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem:

Their flesh shall [a]dissolve while they stand on their feet,
Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets,
And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.

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  1. Zechariah 14:12 Lit. decay

A Triumphant Festival

17 “And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, (A)‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:

(B)“Assemble yourselves and come;
Gather together from all sides to My (C)sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal (D)on the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood.
18 (E)You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
Of rams and lambs,
Of goats and bulls,
All of them (F)fatlings of Bashan.
19 You shall eat fat till you are full,
And drink blood till you are drunk,
At My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you.
20 (G)You shall be filled at My table
With horses and riders,
(H)With mighty men
And with all the men of war,” says the Lord God.

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15 (A)For behold, the Lord will come with fire
And with His chariots, like a whirlwind,
To render His anger with fury,
And His rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by (B)His sword
The Lord will judge all flesh;
And the slain of the Lord shall be (C)many.

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It shall be in that day that I will seek to (A)destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

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16 The nations (A)shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
(B)They shall put their hand over their mouth;
Their ears shall be deaf.
17 They shall lick the (C)dust like a serpent;
(D)They shall crawl from their holes like [a]snakes of the earth.
(E)They shall be afraid of the Lord our God,
And shall fear because of You.

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  1. Micah 7:17 Lit. crawlers

11 (A)Now also many nations have gathered against you,
Who say, “Let her be defiled,
And let our eye (B)look upon Zion.”
12 But they do not know (C)the thoughts of the Lord,
Nor do they understand His counsel;
For He will gather them (D)like sheaves to the threshing floor.

13 “Arise(E) and (F)thresh, O daughter of Zion;
For I will make your horn iron,
And I will make your hooves bronze;
You shall (G)beat in pieces many peoples;
(H)I will consecrate their gain to the Lord,
And their substance to (I)the Lord of the whole earth.”

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Judgment on Gog

18 “And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord God, “that My fury will show in My face. 19 For (A)in My jealousy (B)and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: (C)‘Surely in that day there shall be a great [a]earthquake in the land of Israel, 20 so that (D)the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. (E)The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.’ 21 I will (F)call for (G)a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord God. (H)“Every man’s sword will be against his brother. 22 And I will (I)bring him to judgment with (J)pestilence and bloodshed; (K)I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, (L)great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

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  1. Ezekiel 38:19 Lit. shaking

And [a]they were not given authority to kill them, (A)but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. In those days (B)men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

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  1. Revelation 9:5 The locusts

Then the Lord will go forth
And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.

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(A)You shall [a]fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; (B)I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. You shall [b]fall on [c]the open field; for I have spoken,” says the Lord God. (C)“And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live [d]in security in (D)the coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

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  1. Ezekiel 39:4 Be slain
  2. Ezekiel 39:5 Be slain
  3. Ezekiel 39:5 Lit. the face of the field
  4. Ezekiel 39:6 securely or confidently

Judgment on the Nations

34 Come (A)near, you nations, to hear;
And heed, you people!
(B)Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
The world and all things that come forth from it.
For the indignation of the Lord is against all nations,
And His fury against all their armies;
He has utterly destroyed them,
He has given them over to the (C)slaughter.
Also their slain shall be thrown out;
(D)Their stench shall rise from their corpses,
And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
(E)All the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll;
(F)All their host shall fall down
As the leaf falls from the vine,
And as (G)fruit falling from a fig tree.

“For (H)My sword shall be bathed in heaven;
Indeed it (I)shall come down on Edom,
And on the people of My curse, for judgment.
The (J)sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
It is made [a]overflowing with fatness,
With the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For (K)the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
The wild oxen shall come down with them,
And the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
Their land shall be soaked with blood,
And their dust [b]saturated with fatness.”

For it is the day of the Lord’s (L)vengeance,
The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
(M)Its streams shall be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone;
Its land shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night or day;
(N)Its smoke shall ascend forever.
(O)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
No one shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 (P)But the [c]pelican and the [d]porcupine shall possess it,
Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
And (Q)He shall stretch out over it
The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom,
But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.

13 And (R)thorns shall come up in its palaces,
Nettles and brambles in its fortresses;
(S)It shall be a habitation of jackals,
A courtyard for ostriches.
14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the [e]jackals,
And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion;
Also [f]the night creature shall rest there,
And find for herself a place of rest.
15 There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay eggs
And hatch, and gather them under her shadow;
There also shall the hawks be gathered,
Every one with her mate.

16 “Search from (T)the book of the Lord, and read:
Not one of these shall fail;
Not one shall lack her mate.
For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them.
17 He has cast the lot for them,
And His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line.
They shall possess it forever;
From generation to generation they shall dwell in it.”

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  1. Isaiah 34:6 Lit. fat
  2. Isaiah 34:7 Lit. made fat
  3. Isaiah 34:11 Or owl
  4. Isaiah 34:11 Or hedgehog
  5. Isaiah 34:14 Lit. howling creatures
  6. Isaiah 34:14 Heb. lilith

The Lord is (A)at Your right hand;
He shall [a]execute kings (B)in the day of His wrath.
He shall judge among the nations,
He shall fill the places with dead bodies,
(C)He shall [b]execute the heads of many countries.

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  1. Psalm 110:5 Lit. break kings in pieces
  2. Psalm 110:6 Lit. break in pieces

11 Who knows the power of Your anger?
For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.

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18 After all this the Lord struck him (A)in his intestines with an incurable disease. 19 Then it happened in the course of time, after the end of two years, that his intestines came out because of his sickness; so he died in severe pain. And his people made no [a]burning for him, like (B)the burning for his fathers.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 21:19 Burning of spices

15 and you will become very sick with a (A)disease of your intestines, until your intestines come out by reason of the sickness, day by day.

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59 then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants (A)extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses.

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22 (A)The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with (B)scorching,[a] and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.

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  1. Deuteronomy 28:22 blight

28 then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;

and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

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24 (A)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

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21 ‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.

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16 I also will do this to you:

I will even appoint terror over you, (A)wasting disease and fever which shall (B)consume the eyes and (C)cause sorrow of heart.

And (D)you shall sow your seed [a]in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

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  1. Leviticus 26:16 without profit

The Beast and His Armies Defeated

17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, (A)“Come and gather together for the [a]supper of the great God, 18 (B)that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, [b]free and slave, both small and great.”

19 (C)And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army. 20 (D)Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and (E)those who worshiped his image. (F)These two were cast alive into the lake of fire (G)burning with brimstone. 21 And the rest (H)were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. (I)And all the birds (J)were filled with their flesh.

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  1. Revelation 19:17 NU, M great supper of God
  2. Revelation 19:18 NU, M both free

(A)Render to her just as she rendered [a]to you, and repay her double according to her works; (B)in the cup which she has mixed, (C)mix double for her. (D)In the measure that she glorified herself and lived [b]luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as (E)queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’ Therefore her plagues will come (F)in one day—death and mourning and famine. And (G)she will be utterly burned with fire, (H)for strong is the Lord God who [c]judges her.

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  1. Revelation 18:6 NU, M omit to you
  2. Revelation 18:7 sensually
  3. Revelation 18:8 NU, M has judged

16 And the ten horns which you [a]saw on the beast, (A)these will hate the harlot, make her (B)desolate (C)and naked, eat her flesh and (D)burn her with fire.

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  1. Revelation 17:16 NU, M saw, and the beast

The Seven Bowls

16 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying (A)to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the [a]bowls (B)of the wrath of God on the earth.”

First Bowl: Loathsome Sores

So the first went and poured out his bowl (C)upon the earth, and a [b]foul and (D)loathsome sore came upon the men (E)who had the mark of the beast and those (F)who worshiped his image.

Second Bowl: The Sea Turns to Blood

Then the second angel poured out his bowl (G)on the sea, and (H)it became blood as of a dead man; (I)and every living creature in the sea died.

Third Bowl: The Waters Turn to Blood

Then the third angel poured out his bowl (J)on the rivers and springs of water, (K)and they became blood. And I heard the angel of the waters saying:

(L)“You are righteous, [c]O Lord,
The One (M)who is and who [d]was and who is to be,
Because You have judged these things.
For (N)they have shed the blood (O)of saints and prophets,
(P)And You have given them blood to drink.
[e]For it is their just due.”

And I heard [f]another from the altar saying, “Even so, (Q)Lord God Almighty, (R)true and righteous are Your judgments.”

Fourth Bowl: Men Are Scorched

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl (S)on the sun, (T)and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they (U)blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; (V)and they did not repent (W)and give Him glory.

Fifth Bowl: Darkness and Pain

10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl (X)on the throne of the beast, (Y)and his kingdom became full of darkness; (Z)and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain. 11 They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.

Sixth Bowl: Euphrates Dried Up

12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl (AA)on the great river Euphrates, (AB)and its water was dried up, (AC)so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean (AD)spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of (AE)the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of (AF)the false prophet. 14 For they are spirits of demons, (AG)performing signs, which go out to the kings [g]of the earth and of (AH)the whole world, to gather them to (AI)the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

15 (AJ)“Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, (AK)lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”

16 (AL)And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, [h]Armageddon.

Seventh Bowl: The Earth Utterly Shaken

17 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, (AM)“It is done!” 18 And (AN)there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; (AO)and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake (AP)as had not occurred since men were on the earth. 19 Now (AQ)the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And (AR)great Babylon (AS)was remembered before God, (AT)to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. 20 Then (AU)every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21 And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.

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  1. Revelation 16:1 NU, M seven bowls
  2. Revelation 16:2 severe and malignant, lit. bad and evil
  3. Revelation 16:5 NU, M omit O Lord
  4. Revelation 16:5 NU, M was, the Holy One
  5. Revelation 16:6 NU, M omit For
  6. Revelation 16:7 NU, M omit another from
  7. Revelation 16:14 NU, M omit of the earth and
  8. Revelation 16:16 Lit. Mount Megiddo; M Megiddo

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