The Dead Are Judged

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sat on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his^[a] presence, and no place was found for them.^(A)

¹² When he broke the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,^{(A) 13} and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree drops its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.^{(B) 14} The sky vanished like a scroll rolling itself up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.^{(C) 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,^{(D) 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,^{(E) 17} for the great day of their^[a] wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”^(F)

⁹ These will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,^(A)

Psalm 68

Praise and Thanksgiving

To the leader. Of David. A Psalm. A Song.