16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-17)In the remaining part of this chapter we have the opening of the fifth and the sixth seals. I. The fifth seal. Here is no mention made of any one who called the apostle to make his observation, probably because the decorum of the vision was to be observed, and each of the four living creatures had discharged its duty of a monitor before, or because the events here opened lay out of the sight, and…
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