Book of Revelation 16
The 7 cups with the 7 last troubles
1 Then I heard someone speak to the 7 *angels. He was speaking loudly from God’s house in *heaven. ‘Go and pour out your 7 cups on the earth’, he said. ‘The cups are full because God is very angry.’
2 The first *angel went and poured out his cup on the land. Very bad and painful places appeared on people’s skins because of what was in the *angel’s cup. These bad places appeared on everyone who had the strange animal’s mark on them. They appeared on everyone who *worshipped the animal’s false god.
3 The second *angel poured out what was in his cup on the sea. So, the sea became like the blood of a dead person. And everything that was alive in the sea died.
4 The next (third) *angel poured out what was in his cup on the water. He poured it on the rivers and on the places where water comes up from the ground. And all the water became blood.
5 Then I heard the *angel with authority for the waters say to God: ‘ *Lord, you are alive now and you always have been alive. You are completely good and clean. You are right in everything that you decide.
6 These people have caused trouble for your people and your *prophets. They caused them to bleed and to die. So you have given the people blood to drink. That is what ought to happen to them.’
7 Then I heard someone agree from the special table in front of God. They said: ‘Yes, *Lord God, you have all authority. And you decide what is right and fair!’
8 The next (fourth) *angel poured out what was in his cup on the sun. And God gave great power to the sun so that it burned people with its fire.
9 The strong heat burned people and it hurt them very much. Then they said very bad things against God, because he caused these troubles. But they refused to be sorry for the bad things that they had done. They refused to stop doing those bad things. They refused to say how great God is.
10 The next (fifth) *angel poured out what was in his cup on the strange animal’s *throne. Everywhere that the strange animal ruled became completely dark. And people even bit their mouths because of their great pain.
11 They shouted bad words against the God of *heaven because of their pain and because their skins were hurting them. But they refused to be sorry for the bad things that they had done.
12 The next (sixth) *angel poured out what was in his cup on the great Euphrates river. So the river became dry, to prepare a way. It was the way for the kings who come from the east.
13 Then I saw 3 bad *spirits like frogs. One bad *spirit came out of the big snake’s mouth. Another bad *spirit came out of the first strange animal’s mouth. And the other bad *spirit came out of the false *prophet’s (the second strange animal’s) mouth.
14 They are the *spirits of demons (bad *spirits from the *Devil). They also do things that surprise people. They go out to all the rulers in the whole world, to bring them together for the war. That war will happen on the great day of God, who has all authority. note
15 The *Lord says: ‘Listen! I will come secretly, like someone who robs. Everyone who goes on watching for me will be happy. You must keep your clothes with you all the time. Then you will not have to walk about without clothes. So you will not be ashamed in front of other people.’ note
16 Then the bad *spirits brought the rulers together. They came to the place called Armageddon in the Hebrew language. note
17 The last (seventh) *angel poured out what was in his cup into the air. And someone spoke loudly from the *throne in God’s house. ‘It has finished’, he said.
18 There was a great storm, with bright lights and loud noises, and the ground moved very much. The ground has never moved so much during all the time that people have lived on the earth.
19 The powerful city broke into three parts. When the ground moved, it destroyed all the world’s cities. And God did not forget to *punish that powerful city Babylon. God was very angry with Babylon. It was like God had a cup of very bad *wine. Then he caused that city to drink his *wine. The people had to receive all the bad things that God did to them.
20 He made every island go away. There were no more mountains anywhere.
21 Very big stones of ice fell from the sky upon the people. The weight of each stone was about 50 kilos. The stones of ice caused very much trouble. And the people shouted bad words against God because of the trouble that the ice caused for them. note
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