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

"What did you do?" God asked. "Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.

As an avenger of blood, he remembers them; he has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

Won't God grant his chosen people justice when they cry out to him day and night? Is he slow to help them?

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better message than Abel's.

Holy

"To the messenger of the church in Philadelphia, write: "The one who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens a door that no one can shut, and who shuts a door that no one can open, "says this:

They sang the song of God's servant Moses and the song of the lamb: "Your deeds are both spectacular and amazing, Lord God Almighty. Your ways are just and true, King of the nations.

Dost

The nations were angry, but the time for your wrath has come. It is time for the dead to be judged to reward your servants, the prophets, the saints, and all who fear your name, both unimportant and important, and to destroy those who destroy the earth."

Then I heard the angel in charge of the water say, "You are just. You are the one who is and who was, the Holy One, because you have judged these things.

Be happy about her, heaven, saints, apostles, and prophets, for God has condemned her for you!"

His judgments are true and just. He has condemned the notorious prostitute who corrupted the world with her immorality. He has taken revenge on her for the blood of his servants."

For the LORD will vindicate his people and bring comfort to his servants, because he will observe that their power has waned, when neither prisoner nor free person remain.

Then Samson cried out to the LORD, "Lord GOD, please remember me. And please strengthen me this one time, God, so that I can repay the Philistines right now for my two eyes."

May the LORD judge between me and you, and may he take vengeance on you for me, but I won't be attacking you.

The righteous person will rejoice when he sees your vengeance; when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked.

to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor, the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

"Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, in garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in such splendor, marching in his great might? It is I, speaking in vindication, mighty to save.

because these are the days of vengeance when all that is written will be fulfilled.

Do not take revenge, dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me. I will pay them back, declares the Lord."

Certainly it is right for God to pay back those who afflict you with affliction,

General references

God, how long will the adversary scorn while the enemy despises your name endlessly?

For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for Zion's cause.

LORD, after all this, can you hold yourself back? Can you keep silent and punish us so severely?

"Before your eyes I'll repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all the evil that they did in Zion," declares the LORD.

Pay them back, LORD, according to their actions.

Certainly it is right for God to pay back those who afflict you with affliction,

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.