<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> when the Lamb opened the third seal I heard the third living creature saying, &#8220;Come!&#8221; So<n id="2" /> I looked,<n id="3" /> and here came<n id="4" /> a black horse! The<n id="5" /> one who rode it<n id="6" /> had a balance scale<n id="7" /> in his hand.

Then<n id="1" /> I heard something like a voice from among the four living creatures saying, &#8220;A quart<n id="2" /> of wheat will cost a day&#8217;s pay<n id="3" /> and three quarts of barley will cost a day&#8217;s pay. But<n id="4" /> do not damage the olive oil and the wine!&#8221;p>

Then<n id="1" /> I looked, and I heard an<n id="2" /> eagle<n id="3" /> flying directly overhead,<n id="4" /> proclaiming with a loud voice, &#8220;Woe! Woe! Woe to those who live on the earth because of the remaining sounds of the trumpets of the three angels who are about to blow them!&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

When the seven thunders spoke, I was preparing to write, but<n id="1" /> just then<n id="2" /> I heard a voice from heaven say, &#8220;Seal up what the seven thunders spoke and do not write it down.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> I heard a loud voice from the temple declaring to the seven angels: &#8220;Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls containing God&#8217;s wrath.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> I heard another voice from heaven saying, &#8220;Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues,

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> I heard what sounded like the voice of a vast throng, like the roar of many waters and like loud crashes of thunder. They were shouting:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Hallelujah!p> <p class="poetry">For the Lord our God,<n id="3" /> the All-Powerful,<n id="4" /> reigns!p>

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: &#8220;Look! The residence<n id="1" /> of God is among human beings.<n id="2" /> He<n id="3" /> will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things,<n id="1" /> and when I heard and saw them,<n id="2" /> I threw myself down<n id="3" /> to worship at the feet of the angel who was showing them to me.

<t /><p class="bodytext">After these things I looked, and there was<n id="1" /> a door standing open in heaven!<n id="2" /> And the first voice I had heard speaking to me<n id="3" /> like a trumpet<n id="4" /> said: &#8220;Come up here so that<n id="5" /> I can show you what must happen after these things.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> I heard every creature &#8211; in heaven, on earth, under the earth, in the sea, and all that is in them &#8211; singing:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;To the one seated on the throne and to the Lambp> <p class="poetry">be praise, honor, glory, and ruling power<n id="3" /> forever and ever!&#8221;p>

Then<n id="1" /> the voice I had heard from heaven began to speak<n id="2" /> to me<n id="3" /> again,<n id="4" /> &#8220;Go and take the open<n id="5" /> scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.&#8221;

Then<n id="1" /> I heard a loud voice in heaven saying,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The salvation and the powerp> <p class="poetry">and the kingdom of our God,p> <p class="poetry">and the ruling authority<n id="2" /> of his Christ,<n id="3" /> have now come,p> <p class="poetry">because the accuser of our brothers and sisters,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who accuses them day and night<n id="5" /> before our God,p> <p class="poetry">has been thrown down.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> I heard a voice from heaven say, &#8220;Write this:p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Blessed are the dead,p> <p class="poetry">those who die in the Lord from this moment on!&#8217;&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;Yes,&#8221; says the Spirit, &#8220;so they can rest from their hard work,<n id="2" /> because their deeds will follow them.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>