²⁹ “Immediately after the distress of those days

⁹ “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,

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,^(D) as figs drop from a fig tree^(E) when shaken by a strong wind. ¹⁴ The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up,^(F) and every mountain and island was removed from its place.^(G)

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free,^(H) hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.^{(I) 16} They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us^(J) and hide us^[a] from the face of him who sits on the throne^(K) and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ For the great day^(L) of their^[b] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”^(M)

²⁴ “But in those days, following that distress,

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief.^(A) The heavens will disappear with a roar;^(B) the elements will be destroyed by fire,^(C) and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.^[a](D)