⁶ “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In a little while^(A) I will once more shake the heavens and the earth,^(B) the sea and the dry land.

²² I will overturn^(A) royal thrones and shatter the power of the foreign kingdoms.^(B) I will overthrow chariots^(C) and their drivers; horses and their riders^(D) will fall, each by the sword of his brother.^(E)

¹² I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake.^(A) The sun turned black^(B) like sackcloth^(C) made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

¹³ and the stars in the sky fell to earth,^(A) as figs drop from a fig tree^(B) when shaken by a strong wind.

¹⁸ Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder^(A) and a severe earthquake.^(B) No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth,^(C) so tremendous was the quake.

¹⁹ The great city^(A) split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered^(B) Babylon the Great^(C) and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.^(D)