9. When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar those who had been slaughtered on account of the word of God and the witness they had given.
10. They cried out with a loud voice, "Holy and true Master, how long will you wait before you pass judgment? How long before you require justice for our blood, which was shed by those who live on earth?"
11. Each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to rest a little longer, until their fellow servants and brothers and sisters—who were about to be killed as they were—were finished.
12. I looked on as he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as funeral clothing, and the entire moon turned red as blood.
13. The stars of the sky fell to the earth as a fig tree drops its fruit when shaken by a strong wind.
14. The sky disappeared like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
15. Then the kings of the earth, the officials and the generals, the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in caves and in the rocks of the mountains.