Revelation 6:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come out!” Then I saw a black horse, and its rider had a balance scale in one hand.

Cross References

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is scorched from fever and hunger.

Ezekiel 4:10

Eat only a small loaf of bread each day

Ezekiel 4:16

Ezekiel, the people of Jerusalem will starve. They will have so little food and water that they will be afraid and hopeless.

Leviticus 26:26

You will have such a shortage of bread, that ten women will be able to bake their bread in the same oven. Each of you will get only a few crumbs, and you will go hungry.

Zechariah 6:2

The first chariot was pulled by red horses, and the second by black horses;

Zechariah 6:6

The chariot with black horses goes towards the north, the chariot with white horses goes towards the west, and the one with spotted horses goes towards the south.”

Matthew 24:7

Nations and kingdoms will go to war against each other. People will starve to death, and in some places there will be earthquakes.

Revelation 5:5

Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop crying and look! The one who is called both the ‘Lion from the Tribe of Judah’ and ‘King David's Great Descendant’ has won the victory. He will open the book and its seven seals.”

Revelation 5:9

Then they sang a new song, “You are worthy to receive the scroll and open its seals, because you were killed. And with your own blood you bought for God people from every tribe, language, nation, and race.

Revelation 6:1

At the same time that I saw the Lamb open the first of the seven seals, I heard one of the four living creatures shout with a voice like thunder. It said, “Come out!”