Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Because they poured out the blood of the sanctified and prophets, and thou have given them blood to drink--they are deserving.
New American Standard Bible
for they poured out
King James Version
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Holman Bible
the blood of the saints and the prophets,
You also gave them blood to drink;
they deserve it!
International Standard Version
You have given them blood to drink because they spilled the blood of saints and prophets. This is what they deserve."
American Standard Version
for they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: they are worthy.
Amplified
for they have poured out the blood of the saints (God’s people) and the prophets, and You [in turn] have given them blood to drink. They deserve Your judgment.”
An Understandable Version
For they [i.e., the followers of the beast. See verse 2] have shed the blood of God's holy people and [their] prophets, and you have given them blood to drink because they deserved it [i.e., these persecutors deserved the punishment they received for shedding blood].
Anderson New Testament
For they have shed the blood of saints and of prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink, and they are worthy.
Bible in Basic English
For they made the blood of saints and prophets come out like a stream, and blood have you given them for drink; which is their right reward.
Common New Testament
for they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve it."
Daniel Mace New Testament
for they have shed the blood of saints and prophets: thou hast given them blood to drink; for they have deserv'd it."
Darby Translation
for they have poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; they are worthy.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
for they have poured forth the blood of saints, and prophets; and thou hast given them blood to drink-they are worthy.
Godbey New Testament
because they shed the blood of saints and of prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; they are worthy.
Goodspeed New Testament
for they shed the blood of your people and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink, as they deserve."
John Wesley New Testament
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink. They are worthy.
Julia Smith Translation
For they poured out the blood of the holy, and of the prophets, and thou didst give them blood to drink i for they are worthy.
King James 2000
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; for they are deserving of it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
because they have poured out the blood of the saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; they are deserving!"
Modern King James verseion
since they have poured out the blood of the saints and prophets; and You gave them blood to drink, for they were deserving.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
for they shed out the blood of saints, and prophets, and therefore hast thou given them blood to drink: for they are worthy."
Moffatt New Testament
They poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink! They deserve it!"
Montgomery New Testament
For men poured out the blood of thy saints and prophets, And thou hast given them blood to drink. And this they deserved."
NET Bible
because they poured out the blood of your saints and prophets, so you have given them blood to drink. They got what they deserved!"
New Heart English Bible
For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."
Noyes New Testament
for they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; they deserve it.
Sawyer New Testament
for they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; they are worthy.
The Emphasized Bible
Because, blood of saints and prophets, poured they out, and, blood, unto them, hast thou given to drink: Worthy, they are!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Twentieth Century New Testament
for men shed the blood of Christ's People and of the Prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve.'
Webster
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Weymouth New Testament
For they poured out the blood of Thy people and of the Prophets, and in return Thou hast given them blood to drink. And this they deserved."
Williams New Testament
Because they have shed the blood of your people and prophets, you have given them blood to drink; they deserve it."
World English Bible
For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."
Worrell New Testament
because they poured out the blood of saints and of prophets, and Thou hast given them blood to drink: they are worthy!"
Worsley New Testament
and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Youngs Literal Translation
because blood of saints and prophets they did pour out, and blood to them Thou didst give to drink, for they are worthy;'
Themes
Blood » Illustrative » (given to drink,) of severe judgments
Blood » Figurative » Of judgments
Temple » Figurative » Sending forth the forces of righteousness against the powers of evil
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Word Count of 38 Translations in Revelation 16:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Seven Bowls Of The Wrath Of God
5 And I heard the agent of the waters saying, Thou are righteous who is and was--the Divine--because thou judged these things. 6 Because they poured out the blood of the sanctified and prophets, and thou have given them blood to drink--they are deserving. 7 And I heard the altar saying, Yea, Lord God Almighty, TRUE and righteous are thy judgments.
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Cross References
Isaiah 49:26
And I will feed those who oppress thee with their own flesh. And they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine. And all flesh shall know that I, LORD, am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Revelation 18:24
And in her was found blood of prophets, and of the sanctified, and of all who have been killed upon the earth.
Revelation 11:18
And the nations were angry. And thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to thy bondmen the prophets, and to the sanctified, and to those who fear thy name, the small and the great, and to destr
Revelation 13:15
And it was given it, to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would both speak, and would make as many as would not ever worship the image of the beast be killed.
Deuteronomy 32:42-43
I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.
2 Kings 24:4
and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and LORD would not pardon.
Isaiah 51:22-23
Thus says thy lord LORD, and thy God who pleads the cause of his people: Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. Thou shall no more drink it again.
Jeremiah 2:30
In vain I have smitten your sons. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 26:11
Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the rulers and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
Jeremiah 26:16
Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets. This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of LORD our God.
Lamentations 4:13
[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
Matthew 7:2
For by what criticism ye criticize, ye will be criticized, and by what measure ye measure, it will be measured to you.
Matthew 21:35-41
And the farmers having taken his bondmen, they beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Matthew 23:30-37
and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Luke 11:49-50
Because of this also the wisdom of God said, I will send to them prophets and apostles. And some of them they will kill and persecute,
Luke 12:48
but he who did not know, and did things worthy of blows, will be beaten little. And to every man to whom much was given, much will be required from him. And to whom they entrust much, they will ask him more abundantly.
Hebrews 10:29
By how much worse punishment do ye think he will deserve who has trampled the Son of God, and who considered profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who treated the Spirit of grace contemptuously?
Revelation 6:10-11
And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth?
Revelation 13:10
If any man keeps in captivity, he goes. If any man kills with a sword, he must be killed with a sword. Here is the perseverance and the faith of the sanctified.
Revelation 17:6-7
And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the sanctified, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And having seen her, I wondered with great amazement.
Revelation 18:20
Be glad over her, thou heaven, and the sanctified, and the apostles, and the prophets, because God has decreed your judgment of her.
Revelation 19:2
Because TRUE and righteous are his judgments, because he has judged the great whore who ruined the earth by her fornication, and he has avenged the blood of his bondmen from her hand.