Revelation 6:17
For the great day of their wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 76:7At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.
Isaiah 13:6Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord.
Joel 2:11And the Lord hath uttered his voice before the face of his army: for his armies are exceeding great, for they are strong and execute his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible: and who can stand it?
Zephaniah 1:14The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and exceeding swift: the voice of the day of the Lord is bitter, the mighty man shall there meet with tribulation.
Luke 21:36Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come, and to stand before the Son of man.
Jude 1:6And the angels who kept not their principality, but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day.
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 →