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12 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,
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I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,
13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.
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and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.
14 The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
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The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
15 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,
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Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
16 calling to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
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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 wrath of the Lamb!
17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?"
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For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”
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