Revelation 6:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

they cried out with a loud voice, “Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?”

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

And the Lord said, “What have you done? Listen, your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

Psalm 119:84

How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me?

Psalm 13:1

How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Psalm 35:17

How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!

Psalm 79:10

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes.

Psalm 9:12

For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Isaiah 61:2

to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,

Lamentations 3:64

Pay them back for their deeds, O Lord, according to the work of their hands!

Daniel 12:6

One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was upstream, “How long shall it be until the end of these wonders?”

Daniel 8:13

Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the one who spoke, “For how long is this vision concerning the regular burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled?”

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of the Lord said, “O Lord of hosts, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which you have been angry these seventy years?”

Luke 2:29

“Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word,

Luke 21:22

for these are days of vengeance, as a fulfillment of all that is written.

Romans 12:19

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

2 Peter 2:1

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive opinions. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.

Revelation 11:18

The nations raged, but your wrath has come, and the time for judging the dead, for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints and all who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints and apostles and prophets! For God has condemned her condemnation of you.

Revelation 18:24

And in you was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slaughtered on earth.”

Revelation 19:2

for his judgments are true and just; he has judged the great whore who corrupted the earth with her prostitution, and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”

Revelation 3:10

Because you have kept my word of endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.

Revelation 3:7

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the Holy One, the True One, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens:

Judges 16:28

Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “Lord God, remember me and strengthen me only this once, O God, so that with this one act of revenge I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”

1 Samuel 24:12

May the Lord judge between me and you! May the Lord avenge me on you, but my hand shall not be against you.