Revelation 19:6 - Exposition

And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude. This is the response to the invitation just uttered in Revelation 19:5 . Again "the voice of a multitude," as in Revelation 19:1 . And as the voice of many waters. That is, in its suggestiveness of great power and magnitude (cf. Revelation 1:15 ; Revelation 14:2 ; Psalms 93:3 ; Jeremiah 51:16 ). And as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying . A repetition of the idea contained in the preceding clause. The case of the participle is doubtful; A, P, and others have λεγόντων ; many cursives א has ' λεγόντας ; λεγούσων ; the nominative λέγοντες is found in B and others. Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. (On "Hallelujah," see Revelation 19:1 .) These words connect the present passage with Revelation 17:14 . They exhibit, as it were, the culminating reason for this adoration of God. He has exhibited his almighty power in the overthrow of Babylon, who said, "I sit a queen;" and in the overthrow (which has yet to be narrated more fully) of the kings of the earth.