Revelation 6:17
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Study Note
Study Note
'For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?' — the terrified cry of earth's rulers and the powerful as they flee the wrath of the Lamb echoes Nahum 1:6, Joel 2:11, and Malachi 3:2's rhetorical questions about the day of the Lord. The irony is acute: those who wielded power on earth — kings, captains, rich men (6:15) — are undone by the very power they thought they exercised. The verse provides the theological context for understanding Revelation's judgments not as divine vindictiveness but as the inevitable arrival of cosmic reckoning that the entire prophetic tradition had announced.
Other Translations
for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?
because come did the great day of His anger, and who is able to stand?
For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?
Cross References
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