Revelation 6
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Revelation 6:9-17

9When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw 1underneath the 2altar the 3souls of those who had been slain 4because of the word of God, and because of the 5testimony which they had maintained; 10and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “6How long, O 78Lord, 9holy and true, 10will You refrain from 11judging and avenging our blood on 12those who dwell on the earth?” 11And 13there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should 14rest for a little while longer, 15until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be 16completed also.

12I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great 17earthquake; and the 18sun became black as 19sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; 13and 20the stars of the sky fell to the earth, 21as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. 1422The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and 23every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15Then 24the kings of the earth and the great men and the 25commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; 16and they 26said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the 27presence of Him 28who sits on the throne, and from the 29wrath of the Lamb; 17for 30the great day of their wrath has come, and 31who is able to stand?”

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Notes

  1. 1. Revelation 6:9 Ex 29:12; Lev 4:7; John 16:2 ↩
  2. 2. Revelation 6:9 Rev 14:18; 16:7 ↩
  3. 3. Revelation 6:9 Rev 20:4 ↩
  4. 4. Revelation 6:9 Rev 1:2, 9 ↩
  5. 5. Revelation 6:9 Rev 12:17 ↩
  6. 6. Revelation 6:10 Zech 1:12 ↩
  7. 7. Revelation 6:10 Or Master ↩
  8. 8. Revelation 6:10 Luke 2:29; 2 Pet 2:1 ↩
  9. 9. Revelation 6:10 Rev 3:7 ↩
  10. 10. Revelation 6:10 Lit do You not judge and avenge ↩
  11. 11. Revelation 6:10 Deut 32:43; Ps 79:10; Luke 18:7; Rev 19:2 ↩
  12. 12. Revelation 6:10 Rev 3:10 ↩
  13. 13. Revelation 6:11 Rev 3:4, 5; 7:9 ↩
  14. 14. Revelation 6:11 2 Thess 1:7; Heb 4:10; Rev 14:13 ↩
  15. 15. Revelation 6:11 Heb 11:40 ↩
  16. 16. Revelation 6:11 Acts 20:24; 2 Tim 4:7 ↩
  17. 17. Revelation 6:12 Matt 24:7; Rev 8:5; 11:13; 16:18 ↩
  18. 18. Revelation 6:12 Is 13:10; Joel 2:10, 31; 3:15; Matt 24:29; Mark 13:24 ↩
  19. 19. Revelation 6:12 Is 50:3; Matt 11:21 ↩
  20. 20. Revelation 6:13 Matt 24:29; Mark 13:25; Rev 8:10; 9:1 ↩
  21. 21. Revelation 6:13 Is 34:4 ↩
  22. 22. Revelation 6:14 Is 34:4; 2 Pet 3:10; Rev 20:11; 21:1 ↩
  23. 23. Revelation 6:14 Is 54:10; Jer 4:24; Ezek 38:20; Nah 1:5; Rev 16:20 ↩
  24. 24. Revelation 6:15 Is 2:10f, 19, 21; 24:21; Rev 19:18 ↩
  25. 25. Revelation 6:15 I.e. chiliarchs, in command of one thousand troops ↩
  26. 26. Revelation 6:16 Hos 10:8; Luke 23:30; Rev 9:6 ↩
  27. 27. Revelation 6:16 Lit face ↩
  28. 28. Revelation 6:16 Rev 4:9; 5:1 ↩
  29. 29. Revelation 6:16 Mark 3:5 ↩
  30. 30. Revelation 6:17 Is 63:4; Jer 30:7; Joel 1:15; 2:1f, 11, 31; Zeph 1:14f; Rev 16:14 ↩
  31. 31. Revelation 6:17 Ps 76:7; Nah 1:6; Mal 3:2; Luke 21:36 ↩

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