启示录 7:16

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們必不再餓，也不再渴；太陽和一切炎熱必不傷害他們。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 不 再 饥 ， 不 再 渴 ； 日 头 和 炎 热 也 必 不 伤 害 他 们 。

Contextual Overview

¹³ Then one of the elders asked me, "Who are these people dressed in white robes? Where did they come from?" ¹⁴ I answered, "You know, sir." And the elder said to me, "These are the people who have come out of the great distress. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Because of this, they are before the throne of God. They worship him day and night in his temple. And the One who sits on the throne will be present with them. ¹⁶ Those people will never be hungry again, and they will never be thirsty again. The sun will not hurt them, and no heat will burn them, ¹⁷ because the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd. He will lead them to springs of water that give life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hunger: Psalms 42:2, Psalms 63:1, Psalms 143:6, Isaiah 41:17, Isaiah 49:10, Isaiah 65:13, Matthew 5:6, Luke 1:53, Luke 6:21, John 4:14

the sun: Revelation 21:4, Psalms 121:6, Song of Solomon 1:6, Isaiah 4:5, Isaiah 4:6, Isaiah 25:4, Isaiah 32:2, Jonah 4:8, Matthew 13:6, Matthew 13:21, Mark 4:6, Mark 4:17, James 1:11

Reciprocal: Joshua 5:12 - the manna Psalms 17:15 - I shall Psalms 65:4 - we shall be Psalms 107:9 - General Ecclesiastes 1:8 - the eye Jeremiah 31:14 - my people Ezekiel 34:14 - feed them Ezekiel 34:29 - consumed Nahum 1:12 - I will Zechariah 14:8 - in summer Mark 8:8 - and were Luke 16:24 - in water John 2:10 - but John 6:35 - never hunger 2 Thessalonians 2:16 - everlasting Revelation 16:8 - and power

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are the best person among the people of this time, so you and your family can go into the boat.

Genesis 7:2
Take with you seven pairs, each male with its female, of every kind of clean animal, and take one pair, each male with its female, of every kind of unclean animal.

Genesis 7:3
Take seven pairs of all the birds of the sky, each male with its female. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made."

Genesis 7:5
Noah did everything the Lord commanded him.

Genesis 7:10
Seven days later the flood started.

Deuteronomy 33:27
The everlasting God is your place of safety, and his arms will hold you up forever. He will force your enemy out ahead of you, saying, ‘Destroy the enemy!'

Psalms 46:2
So we will not be afraid even if the earth shakes, or the mountains fall into the sea,

Proverbs 3:23
Then you will go your way in safety, and you will not get hurt.

Matthew 25:10
"So while the five foolish bridesmaids went to buy oil, the bridegroom came. The bridesmaids who were ready went in with the bridegroom to the wedding feast. Then the door was closed and locked.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They shall hunger no more, nor thirst any more,.... The words are taken out of Isaiah 49:10, and will be true in a literal and corporeal sense. Now the saints are often in hunger and thirst, then they shall be so no more; and in a mystical and spiritual sense, there will be no famine of the word; for though there will not be the outward ministration of the word, as now, the substance of it will be enjoyed, to full satisfaction; nor will there be any uneasy desires after spiritual things, and much less any hungerings and thirstings, or lusting after carnal, sensual, and earthly things.

Neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat; not the sun of persecution, see Matthew 13:6; nor the heat of Satan's temptations, or his fiery darts; nor of any fiery trial, or sore affliction; nor of the divine displeasure, or any fearful sense and apprehension of it; nor of toil and labour, called the burden and heat of the day, from all which they will be now free.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They shall hunger no more - A considerable portion of the redeemed who will be there, were, when on earth, subjected to the evils of famine; many who perished with hunger. In heaven they will be subjected to that evil no more, for there will be no want that will not be supplied. The bodies which the redeemed will have - spiritual bodies 1 Corinthians 15:44 - will doubtless be such as will be nourished in some other way than by food, if they require any nourishment; and whatever that nourishment may be, it will be fully supplied. The passage here is taken from Isaiah 49:10; “They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them.” See the notes on that passage.

Neither thirst any more - As multitudes of the redeemed have been subjected to the evils of hunger, so have multitudes also been subjected to the pains of thirst. In prison; in pathless deserts; in times of drought, when wells and fountains were dried up, they have suffered from this cause - a cause producing as intense suffering perhaps as any that man endures. Compare Exodus 17:3; Psalms 63:1; Lamentations 4:4; 2 Corinthians 11:27. It is easy to conceive of persons suffering so intensely from thirst that the highest vision of felicity would be such a promise as that in the words before us - “neither thirst anymore.”

Neither shall the sun light on them - It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to say that the word “light” here does not mean to enlighten, to give light to, to shine on. The Greek is πέσῃ pesē - “fall on” - and the reference, probably is to the intense and burningheat of the sun, commonly called a sunstroke. Excessive heat of the sun, causing great pain or sudden death, is not a very uncommon thing among us, and must have been more common in the warm climates and burning sands of the countries in the vicinity of Palestine. The meaning here is, that in heaven they would be free from this calamity.

Nor any heat - In Isaiah 49:10, from which place this is quoted, the expression is שׁרב shaaraab, properly denoting heat or burning, and particularly the mirage, the excessive heat of a sandy desert producing a vapor which has a striking resemblance to water, and which often misleads the unwary traveler by its deceptive appearance. See the notes on Isaiah 35:7. The expression here is equivalent to intense heat; and the meaning is, that in heaven the redeemed will not be subjected to any such suffering as the traveler often experiences in the burning sands of the desert. The language would convey a most grateful idea to those who had been subjected to these sufferings, and is one form of saying that, in heaven, the redeemed will be delivered from the ills which they suffer in this life. Perhaps the whole image here is that of travelers who have been on a long journey, exposed to hunger and thirst, wandering in the burning sands of the desert, and exposed to the fiery rays of the sun, at length reaching their quiet and peaceful home, where they would find safety and abundance. The believer’s journey from earth to heaven is such a pilgrimage.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 7:16. They shall hunger no more — They shall no longer be deprived of their religious ordinances, and the blessings attendant on them, as they were when in a state of persecution.

Neither shall the sun light on them — Their secular rulers, being converted to God, became nursing fathers to the Church.

Nor any heat. — Neither persecution nor affliction of any kind. These the Hebrews express by the term heat, scorching, &c.