Chapter 6

  I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, 'Come and see!' 

  I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came forth conquering, and to conquer. 

  When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, 'Come!' 

  Another came forth, a red horse. To him who sat on it was given to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword. 

  When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, 'Come and see!' I saw, and behold, a black horse. He who sat on it had a balance in his hand. 

  I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, 'A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don't damage the oil and the wine!' 

  When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, 'Come and see!' 

  I saw, and behold, a pale horse. He who sat on him, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to them. 

  When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held. 

  They cried with a loud voice, saying, 'How long, Master, the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?' 

  There was given to each one of them a white robe. It was said to them that they should rest yet for a little time, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, had been fulfilled. 

  I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood. 

  The stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind. 

  The sky was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 

  The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. 

  They told 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, 

  for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?'