12-17 I watched while he ripped off the sixth seal: a bone-jarring earthquake, sun turned black as ink, moon all bloody, stars falling out of the sky like figs shaken from a tree in a high wind, sky snapped shut like a book, islands and mountains sliding this way and that. And then pandemonium, everyone and his dog running for cover—kings, princes, generals, rich and strong, along with every commoner, slave or free. They hid in mountain caves and rocky dens, calling out to mountains and rocks, “Refuge! Hide us from the One Seated on the Throne and the wrath of the Lamb! The great Day of their wrath has come—who can stand it?”

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14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up,(A) and every mountain and island was removed from its place.(B)

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

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 6:16 See Hosea 10:8.
  2. Revelation 6:17 Some manuscripts his