Revelation 16:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then the sixth [angel] emptied his bowl on the mighty river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to make ready a road for [the coming of] the kings of the east (from the rising sun). [Isa. 11:15, 16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river, the river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings that come from the sunrising.

Common English Bible

Then the sixth angel poured his bowl on the great river Euphrates. Its water was dried up so that the way was ready for the kings from the east.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And the sixth Angel poured out his bowl upon that great river Euphrates. And its water dried up, so that a way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon that great river Euphrates; and dried up the water thereof, that a way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.

Revelation 16:12 Cross References

Isaiah 11:15

And the Lord will dry up the tongue of the sea of Egypt and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching wind and will split it into seven channels and make a way to cross on foot;

Isaiah 41:25

I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun he was summoned by name. He shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.

Isaiah 42:15

I will lay waste mountains and hills and dry up all their herbage; I will turn the rivers into islands and dry up the pools.

Isaiah 44:27

who says to the deep, “Be dry— I will dry up your rivers”;

Isaiah 46:11

calling a bird of prey from the east, the man for my purpose from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have planned, and I will do it.

Isaiah 8:7

therefore the Lord is bringing up against it the mighty flood waters of the River, the king of Assyria and all his glory; it will rise above all its channels and overflow all its banks;

Jeremiah 51:36

Therefore thus says the Lord: I am going to defend your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry,

Revelation 11:14

The second woe has passed. The third woe is coming very soon.

Revelation 17:15

And he said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the whore is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.

Revelation 7:2

I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to damage earth and sea,

Revelation 9:14

saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great River Euphrates.”