Revelation 6:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When he broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature call out, “Come!” I looked, and there was a black horse! Its rider held a pair of scales in his hand,

Cross References

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine.

Ezekiel 4:10

The food that you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; at fixed times you shall eat it.

Ezekiel 4:16

Then he said to me, “Mortal, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread 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 chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go toward the west country, and the dappled ones go toward the south country.”

Matthew 24:7

For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places:

Revelation 5:5

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”

Revelation 5:9

They sing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God saints from every tribe and language and people and nation;

Revelation 6:1

Then I saw the Lamb break one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures call out, as with a voice of thunder, “Come!”