Wahyu 8:7

8:7 The ¹  first angel blew his trumpet, and there was hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was thrown at the earth so that ²  a third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

Wahyu 16:21

16:21 And gigantic hailstones, weighing about a hundred pounds ³  each, fell from heaven ⁴  on people, ⁵  but they ⁶  blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, since it ⁷  was so horrendous. ⁸ 

[8:7]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[8:7]  ² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so that” because what follows has the logical force of a result clause.

[16:21]  ³ tn Here BDAG 988 s.v. ταλαντιαῖος states, “weighing a talent…χάλαζα μεγάλη ὡς ταλαντιαία a severe hailstorm with hailstones weighing a talent (the talent=125 librae, or Roman pounds of c. 343 gr. or 12 ounces each) (weighing about a hundred pounds NRSV) Rv 16:21.” This means each hailstone would weigh just under 100 pounds or 40 kilograms.

[16:21]  ⁴ tn Or “the sky.” Due to the apocalyptic nature of this book, it is probably best to leave the translation as “from heaven,” since God is ultimately the source of the judgment.

[16:21]  ⁵ tn Grk “on men,” but ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used here in a generic sense to refer to people in general (the hailstones did not single out adult males, but would have also fallen on women and children).

[16:21]  ⁶ tn Grk “the men”; for stylistic reasons the pronoun “they” is used here.

[16:21]  ⁷ tn Grk “the plague of it.”

[16:21]  ⁸ tn Grk “since the plague of it was exceedingly great.”