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

He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.

For He who requires blood remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

Holy

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:

He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:

And they *sang the song of Moses, the bond-servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,
“Great and marvelous are Your works,

O Lord God, the Almighty;

Righteous and true are Your ways,

King of the nations!

Dost

And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those 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, “Righteous are You, who are and who were, O Holy One, because You judged these things;

Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced judgment for you against her.”

because His

judgments are

true and righteous; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has

avenged the blood of His bond-servants

on her.”

“For the Lord will vindicate His people,

And will have compassion on His servants,

When He sees that their strength is gone,
And there is none remaining, bond or free.

Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me just this time, O God, that I may at once be avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

May the Lord judge between you and me, and may the Lord avenge me on you; but my hand shall 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 favorable year of the Lord
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,

Who is this who comes from Edom,
With garments of glowing colors from Bozrah,
This One who is majestic in His apparel,

Marching in the greatness of His strength?

“It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

because these are days of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled.

Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

General references

How long, O God, will the adversary revile,
And the enemy spurn Your name forever?

For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Will You restrain Yourself at these things, O Lord?
Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?

“But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes,” declares the Lord.

You will recompense them, O Lord,
According to the work of their hands.

For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

You have not yet resisted

to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;