Revelation 16:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.

Cross References

Psalm 78:44

He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.

Exodus 8:5

And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, the canals, and the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’ ”

Isaiah 50:2

Why was no one there when I came? Why did no one answer when I called? Is my arm powerless to redeem? Or have I no strength to deliver? By my rebuke I dry up the sea; I make the rivers a desert, so that their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.

Ezekiel 35:8

I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses those killed with the sword shall fall.

Hosea 13:15

Although he may flourish among rushes, the east wind shall come, a blast from the Lord, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched. It shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.

Revelation 11:6

They have authority to shut the sky, so that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.

Revelation 14:7

He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

Revelation 16:5

And I heard the angel of the waters say, “You are just, O Holy One, who are and were, for you have judged these things;