“and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Revelation 8 contains 13 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.