Revelation 16:8
Good News Translation
Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to burn people with its fiery heat.

New Revised Standard Version
The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire;

Contemporary English Version
The fourth angel emptied his bowl on the sun, and it began to scorch people like fire.

New American Bible
The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun. It was given the power to burn people with fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. And it was given unto him to afflict men with heat and fire.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. And it was given unto him to afflict men with heat and fire.

upon.

Revelation 6:12 And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal: and behold there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood.

Revelation 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet: and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened. And the day did not shine for a third part of it: and the night in like manner.

Revelation 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit.

Isaiah 24:23 And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, and shall be glorified in the sight of his ancients.

Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea, and of the waves:

Acts 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord to come.

and power.

Revelation 7:16 They shall no more hunger nor thirst: neither shall the sun fall on them, nor any heat.

Revelation 9:17,18 And thus I saw the horses in the vision. And they that sat on them had breastplates of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone. And the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and from their mouths proceeded fire and smoke and brimstone. . . .

Revelation 14:18 And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire. And he cried with a loud voice to him that had the sharp sickle, saying: Thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vineyard of the earth, because the grapes thereof are ripe.

Jonah 4:8 But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following day: and it struck the ivy and it withered.

Matthew 13:6 And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away.

Context
The First Six Bowls of Wrath
7And I heard another, from the altar, saying: Yea, O Lord God Almighty, true and just are thy judgments. 8And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. And it was given unto him to afflict men with heat and fire. 9And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God, who hath power over these plagues. Neither did they penance to give him glory.…
Cross References
Revelation 6:12
And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal: and behold there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood.

Revelation 14:18
And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire. And he cried with a loud voice to him that had the sharp sickle, saying: Thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vineyard of the earth, because the grapes thereof are ripe.

Revelation 16:7
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