Revelation 6:10

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Summary

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

They cried

Holy

Revelation 3:7

Revelation 15:3

Dost

General references

Hebrews 12:4

Bible References

They cried

And he said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.

for he [who] {avenges bloodshed} remembers them. He does not forget the distressed cry of [the] afflicted.

And will not God surely {see to it that justice is done} to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, and will he delay toward them?

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and {to the sprinkled blood} that speaks better than Abel's [does].

Holy

"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: "This is what the holy one, the true one, the one who has the key of David, the one who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one can open, says:

And they were singing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: "Great and marvelous [are] your works, Lord God All-Powerful; righteous and true [are] your ways, King of the ages!

Dost

And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to give their reward to your slaves the prophets and to the saints and to the ones who fear your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth."

And I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, the one who is and the one who was, the Holy One, because you have judged these [things],

Rejoice over her, heaven and the saints and the apostles and the prophets, because God has pronounced your judgment on her!"

because his judgments [are] true and righteous, because he has passed judgment on the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his slaves {shed by} her hand!"

For Yahweh will judge [on behalf of] his people, and concerning his servants; he will change his mind when he sees that [their] power has disappeared, and [there is] no one left, confined or free.

And Samson called to Yahweh and said, "My Lord Yahweh, remember me! Please give me strength this one time, O God, so that I can repay [with] one act of revenge to [the] Philistines for my eyes."

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me on you, but my hand will not be against you!

[The] righteous will rejoice when he sees [the] vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

to {proclaim} [the] year of Yahweh's favor, and our God's day of vengeance, to comfort all those in mourning,

Who [is] this, coming from Edom, from Bozrah [in] bright red garments? [Who is] this honored in his garment, lying down in his great strength? "[It is] I, speaking in justice, {mighty} to save!"

because these are days of vengeance, [so that] all the things that are written can be fulfilled.

Do not take revenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to [God's] wrath, for it is written, "Vengeance [is] mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

since [it is] righteous in the sight of God to pay back those who are afflicting you with affliction,

General references

How long, O God, will [the] adversary taunt? Will [the] enemy treat your name with contempt forever?

For {Yahweh has a day of vengeance}, a year of retribution for the strife of Zion.

Will you control yourself because of these, Yahweh? Will you be silent? And will you oppress us exceedingly?

And I will repay Babylon, and all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their wickedness that they have done in Zion before your eyes," {declares} Yahweh.

Return to them what is deserved, O Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.

since [it is] righteous in the sight of God to pay back those who are afflicting you with affliction,

You have not yet resisted to the point of [shedding your] blood [as you] struggle against sin.