Revelation 6:12-17

Expanded Bible

¹² Then I watched while the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black like ·rough black cloth [^Lsackcloth made of goat hair; ^Cclothing used in mourning], and the whole moon became red like blood [^Csignifying destruction; apocalyptic literature often describes nature falling apart at the end time; Joel 2:31]. ¹³ And the stars in the sky fell to the earth like ·figs [or unripe figs] falling from a fig tree when ·the wind blows [^Lshaken by a strong wind/gale]. ¹⁴ The sky ·disappeared [vanished] as a scroll when it is rolled up [Is. 34:4], and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth, the ·rulers [princes; nobles; magnates], the generals, the rich people, the powerful people, ·the slaves, and the free people [^Land everyone, both slave and free; ^Cpeople of every status and economic level] hid themselves in caves and in the rocks on the mountains. ¹⁶ They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us. Hide us from the face of the One who sits on the throne and from the ·anger [wrath] of the Lamb! ¹⁷ [^LBecause] The great day for their ·anger [wrath] has come [^Cthe final judgment], and who can stand against it [^Ca rhetorical question]?”