AND I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the
four living beings, saying, as with a voice of thunder, Come, and see.
(2)And I looked, and lo! a white horse; and he who sat on it held a
bow, and a crown was given to him, and he went forth conquering and to
conquer.
(3)And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living being
say, Come and see. (4)And there went out another horse flame-coloured;
and to him who sat thereon there was power given to take peace from the
earth, and that men should kill each other; and there was given to him
a great sword.
(5)And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living being
say, Come and see. And I saw, and lo! a black horse; and he that sat
upon it had a pair of scales in his hand. (6)And I heard a voice from
amidst the four living beings saying, A choenix[154] of wheat for a
denarius[155], and three choenixs of barley for a denarius; yet to the
oil and the wine do no injury.
(7)And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth
living being 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?