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

²⁰ The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent^(A) of the work of their hands;^(B) they did not stop worshiping demons,^(C) and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.^{(D) 21} Nor did they repent^(E) of their murders, their magic arts,^(F) their sexual immorality^(G) or their thefts.