and also because of all the innocent blood he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.
Revelation 16:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Because they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, you have given them blood to drink; they deserve it! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Because they have poured out the blood of Your people (the saints) and the prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. Such is their due [they deserve it]! [Ps. 79:3.] American Standard Version (1901) for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: they are worthy. Common English Bible They poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve it!” Catholic Public Domain Version For they have shed the blood of the Saints and the Prophets, and so you have given them blood to drink. For they deserve this." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. |
and also because of all the innocent blood he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.
This is what the Lord says: Here is how you will know that I am the Lord. Watch. I am about to strike the water in the Nile with the staff in my hand, and it will turn to blood.
I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they will be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine. Then all humanity will know that I, the Lord, am your Saviour, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.’
I have struck down your children in vain; they would not accept discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.
Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, ‘This man deserves the death sentence because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.’
Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, ‘This man doesn’t deserve the death sentence, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God! ’
Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous within her.
I will drench the land with the flow of your blood, even to the mountains; the ravines will be filled with your gore.
For you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you will be measured by the same measure you use.
But the one who did not know and did what deserved punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be expected. ,
How much worse punishment do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, who has regarded as profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
The nations were angry, but your wrath has come. The time has come for the dead to be judged and to give the reward to your servants the prophets, to the saints, and to those who fear your name, both small and great, and the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth.
If anyone is to be taken captive, into captivity he goes. If anyone is to be killed with a sword, with a sword he will be killed. This calls for endurance and faithfulness from the saints.
It was permitted to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could both speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
Rejoice over her, heaven, and you saints, apostles, and prophets, because God has pronounced on her the judgement she passed on you!
In her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all those slaughtered on the earth.
because his judgements are true and righteous, because he has judged the notorious prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality; and he has avenged the blood of his servants that was on her hands.