⁶⁶ Your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread, with no assurance of your life.

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth and the magnates and the generals and the rich and the powerful and everyone, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,^{(A) 16} calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,^{(B) 17} for the great day of their^[a] wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”^(C)

²⁷ but a fearful prospect of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.^(A)

⁶⁷ In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread that your heart shall feel and the sights that your eyes shall see.^(A)