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Revelation 16:1
Revelation 16:1–9 pours the first four bowls upon earth, sea, rivers, and the sun. The judgments echo the plagues of Egypt while intensifying them, and the heavenly response explicitly declares God righteous because those who shed the blood of saints and prophets receive judgment. Even under severe judgment, the passage says people blaspheme rather than repent.
Revelation’s bowls of wrath develop a long biblical image in which divine judgment is pictured as a cup poured out or drunk. Psalm 75:8 is a major Old Testament witness to that cup-of-wrath symbolism and helps readers recognize the imagery’s scriptural depth.
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