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 messenger did pour out his vial upon the throne of the beast, and his kingdom did become darkened, and they were gnawing their tongues from the pain,

He is yet speaking with them, and lo, the messenger is coming down unto him, and he saith, 'Lo, this is the evil from Jehovah: what -- do I wait for Jehovah any more?'

And in the time of his distress -- he addeth to trespass against Jehovah, (this king Ahaz),

Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostasy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart is sick.

-- And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards.

Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

The bellows have been burnt, By fire hath the lead been consumed, In vain hath a refiner refined, And the wicked have not been drawn away.

In thine uncleanness is wickedness, Because I have cleansed thee, And thou hast not been cleansed, From thine uncleanness thou art not cleansed again, Till I have caused My fury to rest on thee.

And they

and they did speak evil of the God of the heaven, from their pains, and from their sores, and they did not reform from their works.

and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform;

and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,

'And thou, his son, Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though all this thou hast known;

No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

General references

for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them,

And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them.