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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Revelation 16:4

And, the third, poured out his bowl into the rivers, and the fountains of waters; and they became blood.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Temple;   Water;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Resurrection;   The Topic Concordance - Wrath;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Order;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Antichrist;   Moses;   Plagues of Egypt;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Angels;   Blood;   Moses ;   River ;   Water ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Vials;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Revelation of John:;   Sore;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.
King James Version (1611)
And the third Angel powred out his viall vpon the riuers and fountaines of waters, & they became blood.
King James Version
And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
New American Standard Bible
Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.
New Century Version
The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.
THE MESSAGE
The third Angel poured his bowl on rivers and springs: The waters turned to blood. I heard the Angel of Waters say, Righteous you are, and your judgments are righteous, The Is, The Was, The Holy. They poured out the blood of saints and prophets so you've given them blood to drink— they've gotten what they deserve! Just then I heard the Altar chime in, Yes, O God, the Sovereign-Strong! Your judgments are true and just!
English Standard Version
The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they turned to blood.
Contemporary English Version
The third angel emptied his bowl into the rivers and streams. At once they turned to blood.
Complete Jewish Bible
The third one poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they turned to blood.
Darby Translation
And the third poured out his bowl on the rivers, and [on] the fountains of waters; and they became blood.
Easy-to-Read Version
The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water. The rivers and the springs of water became blood.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the third Angel powred out his viall vpon the riuers and fountaines of waters, and they became blood.
George Lamsa Translation
And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
Good News Translation
Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.
Lexham English Bible
And the third poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.
Literal Translation
And the third angel poured out his bowl onto the rivers, and onto the springs of the waters; and it became blood.
Amplified Bible
Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water; and they turned into blood.
American Standard Version
And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the fountains of the waters; and it became blood.
Bible in Basic English
And the third let what was in his vessel come out into the rivers and the fountains of water; and they became blood.
Hebrew Names Version
The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and it became blood.
International Standard Version
The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.Exodus 7:20; Revelation 8:10;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And the third angel poured his vial upon the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters, and they became blood.
Murdock Translation
And the third angel poured his cup upon the rivers and the fountains of water; and they became blood.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the thirde angell shed out his viall vpon the ryuers and fountaynes of waters, and they turned to blood.
English Revised Version
And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the fountains of the waters; and it became blood.
World English Bible
The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and it became blood.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the third poured out his phial on the rivers and fountains of waters, and they became blood.
Weymouth's New Testament
The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the thridde aungel schedde out his viol on the floodis, and on the wellis of watris, and seide,
Update Bible Version
And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the fountains of the waters; and it became blood.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
New English Translation
Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.
New King James Version
Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
New Living Translation
Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs, and they became blood.
New Life Bible
The third angel poured out his jar of God's anger onto the rivers and places where water comes out of the earth. The water turned to blood.
New Revised Standard
The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the third poured out his vial upon the rivers and the fountains of waters. And there was made blood.
Revised Standard Version
The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and the fountains of water, and they became blood.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And ye thyrde angell shed out his vyall apon the ryvers and fountaynes of waters and they turned to bloud.
Young's Literal Translation
And the third messenger did pour out his vial to the rivers, and to the fountains of the waters, and there came blood,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the thyrde angel shed out his vyall vpon the ryuers and fountaynes of waters, and they turned to bloude.
Mace New Testament (1729)
The THIRD angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains; and they became blood.
Simplified Cowboy Version
The third angel watched all this happen and the poured out his bowl in the rivers and springs of the earth. Just like the sea, they all turned to blood.

Contextual Overview

1 And I heard aloud voice, out of the sanctuary, saying unto the seven messengers - Go, and be pouring out the seven bowls of the wrath of God unto the earth. 2 And the first departed, and poured out his bowl unto the earth; and there came to be a baneful and painful ulcer, upon the men who had the mark of the beast, and them who were doing homage unto his image. 3 And, the second, poured out his bowl into the sea; and it became blood, as of a dead man, and, every living soul, died - as regardeth the things in the sea. 4 And, the third, poured out his bowl into the rivers, and the fountains of waters; and they became blood. 5 And I heard the messenger of the waters, saying - Righteous, art thou Who art, and Who wast, Who art full of lovingkindness, - in that, these things, thou hast adjudged; 6 Because, blood of saints and prophets, poured they out, and, blood, unto them, hast thou given to drink: Worthy, they are! 7 And I heard the altar, saying - Yea! Lord, God, the Almighty: True and righteous, are thy judgments!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

upon: Revelation 8:10, Revelation 8:11

and they: Revelation 16:5, Revelation 14:7, Exodus 7:20, Exodus 8:5, Isaiah 50:2, Ezekiel 35:8, Hosea 13:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 1:22 - Every son Proverbs 21:1 - as Isaiah 34:3 - and the mountains Jeremiah 51:48 - the heaven

Cross-References

Genesis 16:4
And he went in unto Hagar anti she conceived, - and when she saw that she had conceived, lightly esteemed, was her lady, in her eyes.
Genesis 16:5
Then said Sarai unto Abram: My wrong, is, on thee! I, gave my handmaid into thy broom, and when she seeth that she hath conceived, then am lightly esteemed in her eyes Yahweh judge betwixt me and her.
Genesis 16:6
And Abram said unto Sarai, Lo! thy handmaid, is in thy hand, do to her what is good in thine eyes. So Sarai humbled her, and she fled from her face.
Genesis 16:8
So he said Hagar! handmaid of Sarai! Whence hast thou come, and whither wouldst thou go? And she said, From the face of Sarai, my lady, am, I, fleeing.
2 Samuel 6:16
Now it so came about that, when the ark of Yahweh entered the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter, looked out through the window, and saw King David, leaping and dancing before Yahweh, and she despised him, in her heart.
Proverbs 30:23
Under a hateful woman, when she is married, and a handmaid when she driveth out her mistress.
1 Corinthians 4:6
But, these things, brethren, have I transferred unto myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that, in us, ye might learn the lesson - Not beyond the things that are written…! that ye do not puff yourselves up, individually, for this one against that.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the third angel poured his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters,.... Which also is not to be literally understood of a stagnation of them, before the burning of the world; nor of the destruction of Popish fleets and navies, such as the Spanish armada in 1588, and others since; but rather of Popish writings, of the most learned and subtle men among them, who like rivers and fountains, which supply and fill the sea, support and keep up the Romish jurisdiction and hierarchy; and of the confutation of them by Protestant writers; and of the utter destruction of their principal orders, and chief men among them, as cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, Jesuits, c. though it seems chiefly to design the places near to Rome, such as Italy and Savoy for as the third trumpet affects the rivers and fountains, Revelation 8:10 and brings in the Huns into Italy, and issued in the destruction of the empire; so the third vial affects the same, and brings terrible wars, and great effusion of blood, where so much of the blood of the saints have been shed: hence it follows, and they became blood; these countries will be covered with blood, and a reformation will ensue upon it; the allusion is to Exodus 7:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters - This coincides also with the account of the sounding of the third trumpet Revelation 8:10-11; “And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters.” As to the meaning of the phrase, “rivers and fountains of waters,” see the notes on that passage. We found, it was supposed, in the application of that passage, that the invasion of the Roman empire by Attila, king of the Huns, was referred to, affecting mainly those parts of the empire where the rivers and streams had their origin. The analogy would lead us, in the fulfillment of the passage before us, to look for some similar desolations on those portions of Europe. See the notes at the close of Revelation 16:7.

And they became blood - This would properly mean that they became as blood; or became red with blood; and it would be fulfilled if bloody battles were fought near them, so that they seemed to run blood.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 16:4. Upon the rivers and fountains of waters — This is an allusion to the first Egyptian plague, Exodus 7:20; and to those plagues in general there are allusions throughout this chapter. It is a sentiment of the rabbins that "whatever plagues God inflicted on the Egyptians in former times, he will inflict on the enemies of his people in all later times." See a long quotation on this subject from Rabbi Tanchum in Schoettgen.


 
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