Revelation 16:9

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Summary

And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

Blasphemed

And they

General references

Exodus 9:2

Jeremiah 25:16

Bible References

Blasphemed

And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast, and his kingdom waxed dark, and they gnawed their tongues for sorrow,

And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger was come unto him. And he said, "Behold, this evil is of the LORD! What more shall we look for of the LORD?"

And thereto in the very time of his tribulation did king Ahaz trespass yet more against the LORD.

Wherefore should ye be plagued any more? For ye are ever falling away. The whole head is sick, and the heart is very heavy.

If he do not this, he stumbleth and suffereth hunger. And if he suffer hunger, he is out of patience, and blasphemeth his king and his God. Then looketh he upward, and downward to the earth,

Where as thou, O LORD, lookest only upon faith and truth. Thou hast scourged them, but they took no repentance: thou hast corrected them for amendment, but they refused thy correction. They made their faces harder than stone, and would not amend.

The bellows are burnt in the fire, the lead is consumed, the melter melteth in vain, for the evil is not taken away from them.

Thy filthiness is abominable, for I would have cleansed thee, but thou wouldest not be cleansed. Thou canst not be purged from thine uncleanness, till I have poured my wrathful indignation upon thee.

And they

and blasphemed the God of heaven for sorrow, and pain of their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

And I gave her space to repent of her fornication and she repented not.

And the remnant of the men which were not killed by these plagues repented not of the deeds of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and images, of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood, which neither can see, neither hear, neither go.

And thou, his son, O Belshazzar, for all this, hast not submitted thine heart, though thou knewest all these things:

I tell you, Nay, but except ye repent, ye shall all in likewise perish.

I fear lest when I come again, God bring me low among you, and I be constrained to bewail many of them which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and wantonness which they have committed.

General references

If thou wilt not let them go but wilt hold them still:

that when they have drunken thereof, they may be mad, and out of their wits, when the sword cometh that I will send among them.'