saying, Come and see. (8)And I looked, and lo! a pale
coloured horse, and one sat on it, whose name was Death, and the grave
followed after him: and power was given to them to kill the fourth part
of the earth with the sword, and with famine, and with death, and with
the wild beasts of the earth.

(9)And when he opened the fifth seal I saw underneath the altar the
souls of those who had been slain for the word of God, and for the
testimony which they maintained. (10)And they cried with a loud voice,
How long will it be, O sovereign, the holy one and the true, ere thou
judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth? (11)And to
each of them were given white robes, and it was told them that they
should wait yet a little longer space, until the number of their
fellow-servants and their brethren, who should be slain as well as
they, should be completed.

(12)And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo! there was a great
earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon
became as blood; (13)and the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as the
fig-tree sheddeth her early ripe figs when shaken by a mighty wind:
(14)and the heaven was removed away as a volume rolled up and every
mountain and island were removed out of their places: (15)and the kings
of the earth, and the grandees, and the rich, and the military
commanders, and the men in power, and every slave, and every free man,
hid themselves in the caves, and in the rocks of the mountains; (16)and
said to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from
the face of him who sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the
Lamb: (17)for the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able to
stand?

CHAP. VII.

AND after these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners
of the earth, to hold back the four winds of the earth, that the wind
should not blow on the earth, neither on the sea, nor on any tree.
(2)And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having
the seal of the living God; and he cried with a loud voice to the four
angels to whom power was given for them to hurt the earth and the sea,
(3)saying, Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, until we
have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. (4)And I heard
the number of those who were sealed; one hundred and forty and four
thousand were sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel.
(5)Of the tribe of Judah were sea