16:6 because they poured out the blood of your saints and prophets,
so 1 you have given them blood to drink. They got what they deserved!” 2
16:7 Then 3 I heard the altar reply, 4 “Yes, Lord God, the All-Powerful, 5 your judgments are true and just!”
1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate that this judgment is the result of what these wicked people did to the saints and prophets.
2 tn Grk “They are worthy”; i.e., of this kind of punishment. By extension, “they got what they deserve.”
3 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.
4 tn Grk “the altar saying.”
5 tn On this word BDAG 755 s.v. παντοκράτωρ states, “the Almighty, All-Powerful, Omnipotent (One) only of God…(ὁ) κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ π. …Rv 1:8; 4:8; 11:17; 15:3; 16:7; 21:22.”