Revelation 16:5-6 Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters saying, “You are just, you who are in the present and who were in the past, O Holy One, because you have judged that these things should happen.

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ Then I heard the angel [in charge] of the waters saying, “You are just, [you] who are [in the present] and who were [in the past], O Holy One, because you have judged [that these things should happen]. ⁶ For they [i.e., the followers of the beast. See verse 2] have shed the blood of God’s holy people and [their] prophets, and you have given them blood to drink because they deserved it [i.e., these persecutors deserved the punishment they received for shedding blood].