Revelation 6:9-11

The Seven Seals

⁹ When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under _v the altar _w the souls of those who had been slain _x for the word of God and for _y the witness they had borne. ¹⁰ They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, _z holy and true, _a how long _b before you will judge and _c avenge our blood on _d those who dwell on the earth?" ¹¹ Then they were each given _e a white robe and _f told to rest a little longer, _g until the number of their fellow servants ₁ and their brothers _{2 h} should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.

1. Cross References
   Revelation 14:18
   And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, "Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.
   Revelation 16:7
   And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!
   
2. Cross References
   Revelation 20:4
   Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
   
3. Cross References
   Revelation 1:9
   I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
   
4. Cross References
   Revelation 1:2
   Who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.
   
5. Cross References
   Revelation 3:7
   And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
   
6. Cross References
   Psalms 94:3
   O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?
   Zechariah 1:12
   Then the angel of the Lord said, 'O Lord of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?
   
7. Cross References
   Revelation 11:18
   The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.
   Revelation 19:2
   For his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants.
   
8. Cross References
   Psalms 79:10
   Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
   Psalms 119:84
   How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me?
   Luke 18:7 - 8
   And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
   
9. Cross References
   Revelation 3:10
   Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
   
10. Cross References
    Revelation 3:4
    Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
    Revelation 7:9
    After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
    
11. Cross References
    Revelation 14:13
    And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Blessed indeed," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!
    
12. Cross References
    Hebrews 11:40
    Since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
    
13. Cross References
    Genesis 15:16
    And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.