Revelation 6 — Legacy Standard Bible

The Seven Seals

6Then I looked when the ^aLamb opened one of the ^bseven seals, and I heard one of the ^cfour living creatures saying as with a ^dvoice of thunder, “¹Come.” ²Then I looked, and behold, a ^awhite horse, and he who sits on it had a bow; and ^ba crown was given to him, and he went out ^covercoming and to overcome.

³And when He opened the second seal, I heard the ^asecond living creature saying, “Come.” ⁴And another, ^aa red horse, went out; and to him who sits on it, it was given to him to ^btake peace from the earth, and that men would slay one another; and a great sword was given to him.

⁵And when He opened the third seal, I heard the ^athird living creature saying, “Come.” Then I looked, and behold, a ^bblack horse; and he who sits on it had a ^cpair of scales in his hand. ⁶And I heard something like a voice in the midst of the ^afour living creatures saying, “One ¹choinix of wheat for one ²denarius, and three ³choinix of barley for one ⁴denarius, and ^bdo not harm the oil and the wine.”

⁷And when He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the ^afourth living creature saying, “Come.” ⁸Then I looked, and behold, a ^apale horse; and he who sits on it had the name ^bDeath, and ^cHades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, ^dto kill with sword and with famine and with ¹pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.

⁹And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw ^aunderneath the ^baltar the ^csouls of those who had been slain ^dbecause of the word of God, and because of the ^ewitness which they had maintained; ¹⁰and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “^aHow long, O ^bMaster, ^choly and true? ¹Will You not ^djudge and avenge our blood on ^ethose who dwell on the earth?” ¹¹And ^aa white robe was given to each of them; and it was told to them that they should ^brest for a little while longer, ^cuntil the number of their fellow slaves and their brothers who were to be killed even as they had been, would be ^dcompleted also.

¹²Then I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and there was a great ^aearthquake; and the ^bsun became black as ^csackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; ¹³and ^athe stars of the sky fell to the earth, ^bas a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. ¹⁴^aAnd the sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and ^bevery mountain and island were moved out of their places. ¹⁵Then ^athe kings of the earth and the great men and the ¹commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man ^bhid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; ¹⁶and they *^asaid to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the ¹presence of Him ^bwho sits on the throne, and from the ²^,^cwrath of the Lamb, ¹⁷for ^athe great ^bday of their ¹wrath has come, and ^cwho is able to stand?”