The Sixth Seal—Terror

¹² I looked when He (the Lamb) broke open the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as ^[a]sackcloth [made] of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;^{(A) 13} and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree shedding its late [summer] figs when shaken by a strong wind.^{(B) 14} The sky was split [separated from the land] and rolled up like a scroll, and every mountain and island were dislodged and moved out of their places. ¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the ^[b]military commanders and the wealthy and the strong and everyone, [whether] slave or free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; ¹⁶ and they called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne, and from the [righteous] wrath and indignation of the Lamb;^{(C) 17} for the great day of their wrath and vengeance and retribution has come, and who is able to [face God and] stand [before the wrath of the Lamb]?”^(D)