^{12 Ref} I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.

^{13 Ref} The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.

^{14 Ref} The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

^{15 Ref} The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

^{16 Ref} They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

^{17 Ref} for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"