Revelation 6:12-7:3

New American Standard Bible

The Sixth Seal: Terror

¹² And I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great ^(A)earthquake; and the ^(B)sun became as black as ^(C)sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; ¹³ and ^(D)the stars of the sky fell to the earth, ^(E)as a fig tree drops its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. ^14 (F)The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and ^(G)every mountain and island was removed from its place. ¹⁵ Then ^(H)the kings of the earth and the eminent people, and the commanders and the wealthy and the strong, and every slave and free person hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; ¹⁶ and they *^(I)said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the ^[a]sight of Him ^(J)who sits on the throne, and from the ^(K)wrath of the Lamb; ¹⁷ for ^(L)the great day of Their wrath has come, and ^(M)who is able to stand?”

An Interlude

7 After this I saw ^(N)four angels standing at the ^(O)four corners of the earth, holding back ^(P)the four winds of the earth ^(Q)so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. ² And I saw another angel ascending ^(R)from the rising of the sun, holding the ^(S)seal of ^(T)the living God; and he called out with a loud voice to the ^(U)four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, ³ saying, “^(V)Do not harm the earth, or the sea, or the trees until we have ^(W)sealed the bond-servants of our God on their ^(X)foreheads.”