Revelation 6:5

New Living Translation

When the Lamb broke the third seal, I heard the third living being say, “Come!” I looked up and saw a black horse, and its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.

Cross References

Lamentations 5:10

The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.

Ezekiel 4:10

Ration this out to yourself, eight ounces of food for each day, and eat it at set times.

Ezekiel 4:16

Then he told me, “Son of man, I will make food very scarce in Jerusalem. It will be weighed out with great care and eaten fearfully. The water will be rationed out drop by drop, and the people will drink it with dismay.

Leviticus 26:26

I will destroy your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake bread for their families. They will ration your food by weight, and though you have food to eat, you will not be satisfied.

Zechariah 6:2

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

Zechariah 6:6

The chariot with black horses is going north, the chariot with white horses is going west, and the chariot with dappled-gray horses is going south.”

Matthew 24:7

Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in many parts of the world.

Revelation 5:5

But one of the twenty-four elders said to me, “Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the heir to David’s throne, has won the victory. He is worthy to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a new song with these words: “You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals and open it. For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.

Revelation 6:1

As I watched, the Lamb broke the first of the seven seals on the scroll. Then I heard one of the four living beings say with a voice like thunder, “Come!”