Revelation 16:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ And the second messenger poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood, as of a dead one, and every living creature in the sea died.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ The second [angel] emptied his bowl into the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a corpse [thick, corrupt, ill-smelling, and disgusting], and every living thing that was in the sea perished.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And the second poured out his bowl into the sea; and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living soul died, even the things that were in the sea.

Common English Bible

³ The second angel poured his bowl into the sea, and the sea turned into blood, like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing in the sea died.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And the second Angel poured out his bowl upon the sea. And it became like the blood of the dead, and every living creature in the sea died.

Revelation 16:3 Cross References

Genesis 7:22

All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.

Psalm 105:29

He turned their waters into blood, And killed their fish.

Psalm 78:44

He turned their rivers into blood, And they could not drink their streams.

Ezekiel 16:38

“And I shall judge you with judgments of adulteresses and shedders of blood. And I shall bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Acts 2:41

Then those, indeed, who gladly received his word, were immersed. And on that day about three thousand beings were added to them.

Revelation 10:2

and having in his hand a little book opened. And he placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

Revelation 11:6

These possess authority to shut the heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy. And they possess authority over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they wish.

Revelation 13:1

And I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads names of blasphemy.