Revelation 6:5

Modern English Version

When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and behold, there was a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.

Cross References

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is hot as an oven, because of the terrible famine.

Ezekiel 4:10

Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. From time to time you shall eat it.

Ezekiel 4:16

Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety and drink water by measure and with horror,

Leviticus 26:26

When I have broken the supply of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall ration your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Zechariah 6:2

The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,

Zechariah 6:6

The one with the black horses is going toward the north country, the white ones are going after them, while the dappled ones are going toward the south country.”

Matthew 24:7

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines, epidemics, and earthquakes in various places.

Revelation 5:5

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.”

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

Revelation 6:1

I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures saying, with voice like thunder, “Come and see.”