Revelation 16:2

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

So, the first [angel] went and poured out his bowl onto the earth and a terrible and painful sore broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his statue.

Cross References

Acts 12:23

Suddenly, an angel from God struck him [with a terrible condition] because he refused to honor God [by what he said in his speech], so he was consumed by worms and died.

Revelation 13:12

And he exercises all the authority of the first beast [See verse 1] in his presence [or, “on his behalf”]. And he forces the earth and those who lived on it to worship the first beast, whose [apparently] fatal wound had healed.

Revelation 14:16

And He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle onto the earth, and its crop was harvested.

Revelation 14:9

Then a third angel followed them. He said in a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his statue, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,

Revelation 16:1

Then I heard a loud voice from the Temple saying to the seven angels, “You [angels], go and pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath upon the earth.”

Revelation 16:11

and they cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. But they [still] refused to repent of their [evil] deeds.

Revelation 8:7

[When] the first trumpet sounded [I saw] hail and fire, mingled with blood, being hurled down onto the earth. And one third of it was burned up, and one third of the trees were burned up and all the green grass was [also] burned up.