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1 Then I heard a booming voice from the sanctuary saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth!”
2 At that, the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly and painful boils broke out on those who had the mark of the beast and who were worshiping its+ image.
3 Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into thick, dark blood, like that of a corpse, and every last creature died, those living in the sea.
4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.
5 And I heard the angel in charge of the waters saying,
“Just you are, you who are and who were, the Holy One,
in these judgments.
6 Because they poured out the blood indeed of the holy ones and prophets,
blood, likewise, you have given them to drink, as they certainly deserve.”
7 “Yes, Lord God Almighty!” I heard the altar reply. “True and just are your judgments!”
8 Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to afflict people with a scorching, fiery heat.
9 People suffered agonizing burns because of the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues. Yet they refused to repent and give him glory.
10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its+ kingdom was plunged into darkness. People began to bite their tongues in anguish,
11 and they cursed the God of heaven because their boils were so painful. Yet they refused to repent of their evil deeds.
12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up in order to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
13 And I saw coming out of the dragon’s mouth and out of the beast’s mouth and out of the false prophet’s mouth three unclean spirits that looked like frogs
14 (they are demonic spirits, you see, performing miraculous signs), who will go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth to gather them together for the battle of the Great Day of God Almighty.
15 (“Remember, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and alert and keeps his clothes ready, so that he will not have to walk about naked, and others see his shameful condition.”)
16 And he gathered them together to the place that in Hebrew is called Har-Magiddon—“Mount of Megiddo.”
17 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a booming voice spoke from the throne in the sanctuary, declaring, “It has come!”
18 And there were flashes of lightning and rumblings and peals of thunder, and there was an earthquake, too, that was extremely violent—an earthquake unequaled since the creation of mankind, so fierce and powerful was the earthquake.
19 The great city split into three parts, and these collapsed: The cities of the nations. As for Babylon the Great, God remembered her sins and gave her the cup filled with the wine of his fierce wrath.
20 Every island sank, and the mountains were leveled.
21 Descending from heaven upon mankind were giant hailstones, each one weighing about a hundred pounds. And people cursed God for sending the plague of hail, because it was so fierce and intense.