14The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.


In Context

11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.

12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

14 The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

16 They called to 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!

Revelation 6:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:14And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:14And the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:14And the heaven departed as a book folded up: and every mountain, and the islands were moved out of their places.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:14And the heaven was removed as a book rolled up, and every mountain and island were removed out of their places.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:14And the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:14And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and isle were moved out of their places.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:14The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:14and heaven departed as a scroll rolled up, and every mountain and island — out of their places they were moved;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:14And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.