Revelation 6:17
For the great day of their wrath has arrived. And who will be able to stand?”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 76:7And I meditated in the night with my heart, and I was distressed, and I examined my spirit.
Isaiah 13:6Wail aloud! For the day of the Lord draws near! It will arrive like a devastation from the Lord.
Joel 2:11And the Lord has bestowed his voice before the face of his army. For its military camps are very numerous; for they are strong and they carry out his word. For the day of the Lord is great and so very terrible, and who can withstand it?
Zephaniah 1:14The great day of the Lord is near; it is near and exceedingly swift. The voice of the day of the Lord is bitter; the strong will be tested there.
Luke 21:36And so, be vigilant, praying at all times, so that you may be held worthy to escape from all these things, which are in the future, and to stand before the Son of man.”
Jude 1:6And truly, the Angels, who did not keep to their first place, but instead abandoned their own domiciles, he has reserved with perpetual chains under darkness, unto the great day of judgment.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 6:10-17
The Opening of the Seals. ( a. d. 95.) 9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? 11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their… Read the whole commentary →