12 And I watched when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake took place, and the sun became black like sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood, 13 and the stars of heaven[a] fell to the earth like a fig tree throws down its unripe figs when[b] shaken by a great wind.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 6:13 Or “of the sky”
  2. Revelation 6:13 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“shaken”) which is understood as temporal

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.

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