The Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath
1Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s fury.” 2The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and painful, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. 3The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned to blood like that of a corpse, and every living thing in the sea died. 4The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned to blood. 5And I heard the angel of the waters say, “Just are you, the one who is and who was, the Holy One, for you have judged these things. 6Because they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, you have given them blood to drink; they deserve it.” 7And I heard the altar say, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and just are your judgments.” 8The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire. 9They were scorched by the intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory. 10The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish 11and cursed the God of heaven because of their pain and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.
The Sixth and Seventh Bowls
12The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. 13Then I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14They are demonic spirits performing signs, who go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle of the great day of God, the Almighty. 15“Look, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes on, so that he will not go around naked and be seen exposed.” 16Then they gathered the kings together at the place called, in Hebrew, Armageddon. 17The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” 18Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake — the greatest earthquake since mankind has been on the earth, so massive was that quake. 19The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. God remembered Babylon the great, to give her the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath. 20Every island fled away, and no mountains could be found. 21Huge hailstones, each weighing about a talent, fell from the sky on people, and they cursed God for the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.
