¹² I watched as he broke the sixth seal, and there was a vast earthquake; and the sun became dark like black cloth, and the moon was blood-red. ¹³ Then the stars of heaven appeared to be falling to earth^[a]—like green fruit from fig trees buffeted by mighty winds. ¹⁴ And the starry heavens disappeared^[b] as though rolled up like a scroll and taken away; and every mountain and island shook and shifted.