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12 When He [the Lamb] broke open the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun grew black as sackcloth of hair, [the full disc of] the moon became like blood.(A)

13 And the stars of the sky dropped to the earth like a fig tree shedding its unripe fruit out of season when shaken by a strong wind.(B)

14 And the [a]sky rolled up like a scroll and vanished, and every mountain and island was dislodged from its place.

15 Then the kings of the earth and their noblemen and their magnates and their military chiefs and the wealthy and the strong and [everyone, whether] slave or free hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,(C)

16 And they called to the mountains and the rocks, Fall on (before) us and hide us from the face of Him Who sits on the throne and from the [b]deep-seated indignation and wrath of the Lamb.(D)

17 For the great day of His wrath (vengeance, retribution, indignation) has come, and who is able to stand before it?(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 6:14 James Moulton and George Milligan, The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament.
  2. Revelation 6:16 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.

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