Psalm 136

⁴⁴ Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.^{(A) 45} The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.^{(B) 46} I have come into the world as a light,^(C) so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.

⁴⁷ “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.^{(D) 48} There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them^(E) at the last day. ⁴⁹ For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me^(F) to say all that I have spoken. ⁵⁰ I know that his command leads to eternal life.^(G) So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”^(H)

⁹ When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under^(A) the altar^(B) the souls of those who had been slain^(C) because of the word of God^(D) and the testimony they had maintained. ¹⁰ They called out in a loud voice, “How long,^(E) Sovereign Lord,^(F) holy and true,^(G) until you judge the inhabitants of the earth^(H) and avenge our blood?”^{(I) 11} Then each of them was given a white robe,^(J) and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters,^[a] were killed just as they had been.^(K)

¹² I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake.^(L) The sun turned black^(M) like sackcloth^(N) made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, ¹³ and the stars in the sky fell to earth,^(O) as figs drop from a fig tree^(P) when shaken by a strong wind. ¹⁴ The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up,^(Q) and every mountain and island was removed from its place.^(R)

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