启示录 16:18

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

於是有閃電、響聲、雷轟和大地震，自從地上有人以來，沒發生過這麼大的地震，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
又 有 闪 电 、 声 音 、 雷 轰 、 大 地 震 ， 自 从 地 上 有 人 以 来 ， 没 有 这 样 大 、 这 样 利 害 的 地 震 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air. Then a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, "It is finished!" ¹⁸ Then there were flashes of lightning, noises, thunder, and a big earthquake—the worst earthquake that has ever happened since people have been on earth. ¹⁹ The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations were destroyed. And God remembered the sins of Babylon the Great, so he gave that city the cup filled with the wine of his terrible anger. ²⁰ Then every island ran away, and mountains disappeared. ²¹ Giant hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell from the sky upon people. People cursed God for the disaster of the hail, because this disaster was so terrible.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

were: Revelation 4:5, Revelation 8:5, Revelation 11:19

a: Revelation 11:13, Daniel 12:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:23 - the Lord sent 1 Samuel 7:10 - thundered 1 Kings 19:11 - an earthquake Job 9:5 - which overturneth Psalms 29:3 - thundereth Isaiah 2:19 - when he Isaiah 29:6 - General Isaiah 30:30 - the flame Isaiah 42:15 - General Ezekiel 38:19 - Surely Joel 3:16 - and the heavens Zechariah 14:5 - the mountains John 9:32 - the world Revelation 6:12 - there

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings,.... As at the giving of the law, Exodus 19:16 and at the sounding of the seventh trumpet, Exodus 19:16- : and may intend either the pure ministry of the Gospel in the spiritual reign, the voices of Christ's ministers, and the effects of them, who will be "Boanergeses", sons of thunder, and will be the means of enlightening the minds of many, as well as of shaking the consciences of men, signified by the earthquake following; or rather, the tremendous and awful judgments of God upon the remains of the antichristian party, as the very great commotions and changes that will be made in the world are expressed in the next clause:

and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great: for as the changes made in the Jewish state, civil and ecclesiastical, are signified by the shaking of the heavens and the earth, and as the fall of Paganism is expressed by an earthquake, and the fall of the tenth part of the city is the effect of another; so the destruction of all the antichristian powers, and the mutations made in the earth thereby, are designed by this; see Hebrews 12:26 Joel 3:16. Mr. Daubuz applies the whole of this vial to the, Reformation, when such a revolution was made in a short time, as has not been known since the world was, or men became worshippers of the beast; at which time Christendom was divided into three parts, the eastern or Greek church, the western or Latin church, and the reformed churches.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings - Accompanying the voice that was heard from the throne. See the notes on Revelation 4:5; Revelation 11:19.

And there was a great earthquake, ... - See the notes on Revelation 6:12; Revelation 11:19. The meaning is, that a judgment followed as if the world were shaken by an earthquake, or which would be properly represented by that.

So mighty an earthquake, and so great - All this is intensive, and is designed to represent the severity of the judgment that would follow.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 16:18. A great earthquake — Most terrible commotions, both civil and religious. Or a convulsion, shaking, or revolution.