Revelation 6:10

The martyrs cry out, asking how long until God judges and avenges their blood. Their prayer voices the righteous longing for God's justice against persistent evil.

Cross-references · 29

• Rev 19:2for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”
• Ps 9:12For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
• Rev 11:18The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
• Rom 12:19Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
• Rev 16:5–7I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.
• Luke 18:7–8Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
• 2 Th 1:6–8Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
• Luke 21:22For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
• Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
• Zech 1:12Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
• Rev 18:20“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”
• Rev 15:3–4They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
• Deut 32:36–43For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
• Gen 4:10Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
• Ps 58:10–11The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
• Rev 18:24In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”
• Ps 79:10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
• 1 Sam 24:12May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.
• Isa 63:1–6Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
• Heb 12:24to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
• Judg 16:28Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”
• Rev 3:10Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• Ps 74:9–10We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
• Dan 12:6One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
• Ps 94:3–4Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
• Ps 13:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
• Isa 61:2to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
• Ps 35:17Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.
• Dan 8:13Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, How long shall be the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot?

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