He turned their rivers into blood, so they could not drink from their streams.
Revelation 16:4 - Tree of Life Version Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the third [angel] emptied out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into (became) blood. [Exod. 7:17-21.] American Standard Version (1901) And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the fountains of the waters; and it became blood. Common English Bible The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they turned into blood. Catholic Public Domain Version And the third Angel poured out his bowl upon the rivers and the sources of water, and these became blood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the third poured out his vial upon the rivers and the fountains of waters; and there was made blood. |
He turned their rivers into blood, so they could not drink from their streams.
Moses answered Pharaoh, “Boast about me after I pray for you. When am I to pray for you, your servants and your people, that the frogs would be cut off from you and your houses, and remain only in the Nile?”
Why was no one there when I came? Why was there no one to answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, I dry up the sea at My rebuke, I make rivers a wilderness— their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.
I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills, your valleys and all your streams those slain by the sword will fall.
Because he is the son of kinsmen, he should have been fruitful. An east wind will come— the wind from Adonai, coming up from the wilderness. His spring will become dry, and his fountain will dry up. He will plunder the treasury of every precious vessel.
These two have the power to shut the heavens, so that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying. And they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the One who made heaven and earth and sea and springs of water.”
Then I heard the angel of the waters saying, “Righteous are You—the Holy One, who is and who was— because You have passed these judgments.