Revelation 8:1

New English Translation

Now when the Lamb opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Cross References

Job 4:16

It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice:

Psalm 37:7

Wait patiently for the Lord! Wait confidently for him! Do not fret over the apparent success of a sinner, a man who carries out wicked schemes!

Psalm 62:1

For God alone I patiently wait; he is the one who delivers me.

Habakkuk 2:20

But the Lord is in his majestic palace. The whole earth is speechless in his presence!”

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent in the Lord’s presence, all people everywhere, for he is being moved to action in his holy dwelling place.

Matthew 27:66

So they went with the soldiers of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.

Revelation 5:1

Then I saw in the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne a scroll written on the front and back and sealed with seven seals.

Revelation 5:9

They were singing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

Revelation 6:1

I looked on when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a thunderous voice, “Come!”

Revelation 6:12

Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red;

Revelation 6:3

Then when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come!”

Revelation 6:5

Then when the Lamb opened the third seal I heard the third living creature saying, “Come!” So I looked, and here came a black horse! The one who rode it had a balance scale in his hand.

Revelation 6:7

Then when the Lamb opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come!”

Revelation 6:9

Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.