Revelation 11:18
What does Revelation 11:18 mean?
A plain-English look at Revelation 11:18 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
What Revelation 11:18 means
The elders continue: the nations raged, but God’s wrath arrived. It is the appointed time for the dead to be judged, for God’s servants—the prophets, the saints, and all who fear His name, small and great—to receive reward, and for the destroyers of the earth to be destroyed. This sums up final accountability. No one escapes; no faithful deed is forgotten. The scope is sweeping: prophets and ordinary believers alike are honored; the violent and corrupt are decisively stopped. God’s wrath is not capricious anger but holy justice restoring God’s world. The reversal is complete: those who seemed powerful are brought low; those who feared God are vindicated.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and the nations were angry, and Thine anger did come, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants, to the prophets, and to the saints, and to those fearing Thy name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the land.'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And the nations were angry: and thy wrath is come. And the time of the dead, that they should be judged and that thou shouldest render reward to thy servants the prophets and the saints, and to them that fear thy name, little and great: and shouldest destroy them who have corrupted the earth.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the nations have been full of wrath, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the recompense to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to those who fear thy name, small and great; and to destroy those that destroy the earth.
Context
This verse supplies the theological heart of the seventh trumpet: God’s reign entails judgment and reward. It interprets the heavenly proclamation as the moment when divine justice is executed. The catalog of recipients—prophets, saints, God-fearers—echoes the earlier emphasis on worshipers measured and preserved. The mention of “destroyers of the earth” links human wickedness to creation’s harm, anticipating its healing. Having announced these outcomes, the chapter will close by unveiling heaven’s temple and the ark of the covenant, accompanied by phenomena that signal God’s holy presence and judicial action.
v.17saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast; because thou hast taken thy great power, and didst reign.
v.18This passage
v.19And there was opened the temple of God that is in heaven; and there was seen in his temple the ark of his covenant; and there followed lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Revelation 19:5
And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Give praise to our God, all ye his servants, ye that fear him, the small and the great.
- Daniel 11:44
But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him; and he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many.
- Daniel 7:26
But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
- Luke 1:50
And his mercy is unto generations and generations On them that fear him.
- Revelation 17:12
And the ten horns that thou sawest are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet; but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.
- Psalms 103:11
For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is his lovingkindness toward them that fear him.
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