Revelation 6:10

Overview - Revelation 6
The opening of the seals in order, and what followed thereupon, containing a prophecy to the end of the world.
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Revelation 6:10  (King James Version)
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
 


they cried
Genesis 4:10 ; Psalms 9:12 ; Luke 18:7 Luke 18:8 ; Hebrews 12:24

How
Psalms 13:1 ; 35:17 Psalms 74:9 Psalms 74:10 Psalms 94:3 Psalms 94:4 Daniel 8:13 ; 12:6 Zechariah 1:12

holy
3:7 Revelation 15:3 Revelation 15:4

dost
11:18 16:5-7 Revelation 18:20 Revelation 18:24 19:2 Deuteronomy 32:36-43 ; Judges 16:28 ; 1 Samuel 24:12
Psalms 58:10 Psalms 58:11 ; Isaiah 61:2 ; 63:1-6 Luke 21:22 ; Romans 12:19 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:6-8

avenge
This seal seems a prediction of the terrible persecution of the church under Dioclesian and Maximian, from A
D. 270 to 304, which lasted longer, and was far more bloody, than any or
all by which it was preceded, whence it was called "the ra of the martyrs."