Revelation 6:5

New American Bible - revised edition

When he broke open the third seal, I heard the third living creature cry out, “Come forward.” I looked, and there was a black horse, and its rider held a scale in his hand.

Cross References

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin heats up like an oven, from the searing blasts of famine.

Ezekiel 4:10

The food you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; each day you shall eat it.

Ezekiel 4:16

Then he said to me: Son of man, I am about to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem so they shall eat bread which they have weighed out anxiously and drink water which they have measured out fearfully.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women will need but one oven for baking your bread, and they shall dole it out to you by weight; and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.

Zechariah 6:2

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

Zechariah 6:6

The one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, and the white horses go toward the west, and the dappled ones go toward the land of the south.”

Matthew 24:7

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be famines and earthquakes from place to place.

Revelation 5:5

One of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. The lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has triumphed, enabling him to open the scroll with its seven seals.”

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.

Revelation 6:1

Then I watched while the Lamb broke open the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures cry out in a voice like thunder, “Come forward.”