New American Standard Bible 1995

Revelation 6:8-11

8I looked, and behold, an 1 2ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name 3Death; and 4Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, 5to kill with sword and with famine and with 6pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.

9When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw 7underneath the 8altar the 9souls of those who had been slain 10because of the word of God, and because of the 11testimony which they had maintained; 10and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “12How long, O 13 14Lord, 15holy and true, 16will You refrain from 17judging and avenging our blood on 18those who dwell on the earth?” 11And 19there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should 20rest for a little while longer, 21until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be 22completed also.

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Notes

1. Revelation 6:8 Or sickly pale ↩
2. Revelation 6:8 Zech 6:3 ↩
3. Revelation 6:8 Prov 5:5; Hos 13:14; Matt 11:23; Rev 1:18; 20:13f ↩
4. Revelation 6:8 Prov 5:5; Hos 13:14; Matt 11:23; Rev 1:18; 20:13f ↩
5. Revelation 6:8 Jer 14:12; 15:2f; 24:10; 29:17f; Ezek 5:12, 17; 14:21; 29:5 ↩
6. Revelation 6:8 Or death ↩
7. Revelation 6:9 Ex 29:12; Lev 4:7; John 16:2 ↩
8. Revelation 6:9 Rev 14:18; 16:7 ↩
9. Revelation 6:9 Rev 20:4 ↩
10. Revelation 6:9 Rev 1:2, 9 ↩
11. Revelation 6:9 Rev 12:17 ↩
12. Revelation 6:10 Zech 1:12 ↩
13. Revelation 6:10 Or Master ↩
14. Revelation 6:10 Luke 2:29; 2 Pet 2:1 ↩
15. Revelation 6:10 Rev 3:7 ↩
16. Revelation 6:10 Lit do You not judge and avenge ↩
17. Revelation 6:10 Deut 32:43; Ps 79:10; Luke 18:7; Rev 19:2 ↩
18. Revelation 6:10 Rev 3:10 ↩
19. Revelation 6:11 Rev 3:4, 5; 7:9 ↩
20. Revelation 6:11 2 Thess 1:7; Heb 4:10; Rev 14:13 ↩
21. Revelation 6:11 Heb 11:40 ↩
22. Revelation 6:11 Acts 20:24; 2 Tim 4:7 ↩

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