Symbol key · People
Waters / Sea
Crowded populations — peoples and nations
Where Scripture defines it
“The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” (Revelation 17:15)
Confirmed at Daniel 7:2-3
The four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea.
Confirmed at Isaiah 17:12
The multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas.
Confirmed at Revelation 13:1
And I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns.
Confirmed at Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
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