MODERN LITERAL VERSION

16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven messengers, Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God into the earth.

16:2 And the first went and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became an evil sore and wicked toward the men who had the mark of the beast and who are worshiping his image.

16:3 And the second poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man, and every living soul died, and the things that were in the sea.

16:4 And the third messenger poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of the waters, and it became blood.
16:5 And I heard the messenger of the waters saying, Righteous are you, who are and who was, you the Holy One, because you judged these things;
16:6 because they shed the blood of the holy-ones and the prophets and you gave blood to them to drink for* they are worthy.
16:7 And I heard from the altar saying, Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.

16:8 And the fourth messenger poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to burn men with fire.
16:9 And men were burnt with great heat and the men blasphemed the name of God who has the authority over these wounds, and they did not repent to give him glory.

16:10 And the fifth messenger poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened, and they gnawed their tongues out of pain,
16:11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven out of their pains and out of their sores, and they did not repent from their works.

16:12 And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, in order that the way of the kings who come from the rising of the sun might be made ready.
16:13 And I saw out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs;
16:14 for* they are spirits of demons, doing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited-earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty.
16:15 (Behold, I am coming like a thief. He who is watching and keeping his garments is fortunate, that* he may not walk naked and that* they may see his indecency.)
16:16 And they gathered them together into the place which in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon.

16:17 And the seventh poured out his bowl upon the air, and there came forth a great voice from the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It has happened.
16:18 And there became lightnings and voices and thunders, and there became a great earthquake, such-as has not happened since men have been upon the earth, so-great an earthquake– so great!
16:19 And the great city became divided into three parts and the cities of the nations fell and Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
16:20 And every island fled away and the mountains were not found.
16:21 And great hail, approximately a {F} talant's poundage, comes down from heaven upon men and men blasphemed God from the wound of the hail, because its wound is extremely great.
{Footnote: a talant is 58-80 lbs. of silver.}