Revelation 11:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Those from every people, tribe, tongue, and nation will gaze on their corpses for three and a half days, and they will not allow their corpses to be buried.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:22

but returned and ate bread and drank water in the place where he told you, Do not eat bread or drink water, your corpse shall not be brought to the grave of your ancestors.”

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Should one have a hundred children and live many years, no matter to what great age, still if one has not the full benefit of those goods, I proclaim that the child born dead, even if left unburied, is more fortunate.

Isaiah 33:1

Ah! You destroyer never destroyed, betrayer never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; when you have stopped betraying, you will be betrayed.

Jeremiah 7:33

The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and beasts of the earth, which no one will drive away.

Matthew 7:2

For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.

Revelation 10:11

Then someone said to me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.”

Revelation 11:11

But after the three and a half days, a breath of life from God entered them. When they stood on their feet, great fear fell on those who saw them.

Revelation 13:7

It was also allowed to wage war against the holy ones and conquer them, and it was granted authority over every tribe, people, tongue, and nation.

Revelation 17:15

Then he said to me, “The waters that you saw where the harlot lives represent large numbers of peoples, nations, and tongues.

Revelation 5:8

When he took it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each of the elders held a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the holy ones.

Revelation 5:9

They sang a new hymn: “Worthy are you to receive the scroll and to break open its seals, for you were slain and with your blood you purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue, people and nation.