Revelation 6:17 “For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstan…”

Revelation 6:17

For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?

Geneva Bible 1599

For the great day of his wrath is come, and who can stand?

Darby Translation

because the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able to stand?

Young's Literal Translation

because come did the great day of His anger, and who is able to stand?

Bible in Basic English

For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?

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Cross references

“the great”

Joel 2:31 Revelation 16:14 Jeremiah 30:7 Isaiah 13:6–22 Zephaniah 1:14–18 Romans 2:5

Joel 2:31 · BSB

The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

Revelation 16:14 · BSB

These are demonic spirits that perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

Jeremiah 30:7 · BSB

How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.

Isaiah 13:6–22 · BSB

Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Zephaniah 1:14–18 · BSB

The great Day of the LORD is near— near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter.

Romans 2:5 · BSB

But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

“who”

Psalm 76:7 Malachi 3:2 Joel 2:11 Psalm 130:3 Psalm 130:4

Psalm 76:7 · BSB

You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?

Malachi 3:2 · BSB

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.

Joel 2:11 · BSB

The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?

Psalm 130:3 · BSB

If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

Psalm 130:4 · BSB

But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.

Also

Luke 21:36

Luke 21:36 · BSB

So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

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