Revelation 6:17
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New International Version (©2011)
For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
For the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to survive?"

English Standard Version (©2001)
for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
because the great day of Their wrath has come! And who is able to stand?"

International Standard Version (©2012)
For the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to endure it?"

NET Bible (©2006)
because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?"

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“Because the great day of his anger has come, and who is able to stand?”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
because the frightening day of their anger has come, and who is able to endure it?"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For the great day of his wrath has come; and who shall be able to stand?

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the great day of their wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who will be able to stand?

Weymouth New Testament
for the day of His anger--that great day--has come, and who is able to stand?"

World English Bible
for the great day of his wrath has 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?

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the great day of his wrath is come,.... The Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read, "of their wrath"; both of him that sits upon the throne, and of the Lamb, against the Heathen gods and Heathen persecutors, in answer to the cry of the martyrs in Revelation 6:9.

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Vincent's Word Studies

The great day (ἡ ἡμέρα ἡ μεγάλη)

Lit., the day, the great (day). For the construction, see on 1 John 4:9.

Is come (ἦλθεν)

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

For the great day of his wrath - The decisive and manifest time in which he will execute judgment on the oppressors of his people.

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Geneva Study Bible

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

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

17. Literally, "the day, the great (day)," which can only mean the last great day. After the Lord has exhausted all His ordinary judgments, the sword, famine, pestilence, and wild beasts, and still sinners are impenitent, the great day of the Lord itself' shall come. Mt 24:6-29 plainly forms a perfect parallelism to the six seals, not only in the events, but also in the order of their occurrence: Mt 24:3, the first seal; Mt 24:6, the second seal; Mt 24:7, the third seal; Mt 24:7, end, the fourth seal; Mt 24:9, the fifth seal, the persecutions and abounding iniquity under which, as well as consequent judgments accompanied with gospel preaching to all nations as a witness, are particularly detailed, Mt 24:9-28; Mt 24:29, the sixth seal.

to stand-to stand justified, and not condemned before the Judge. Thus the sixth seal brings us to the verge of the Lord's coming. The ungodly "tribes of the earth" tremble at the signs of His immediate approach. But before He actually inflicts the blow in person, "the elect" must be "gathered "out.

Revelation 6:17 Parallel Commentaries
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The Sixth Seal: Terror
…15And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every slave, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

1 Samuel 6:20 And the people of Beth Shemesh asked, "Who can stand in the presence of the LORD, this holy God? To whom will the ark go up from here?"
Psalm 2:12 Kiss his son, or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
Psalm 76:7 It is you alone who are to be feared. Who can stand before you when you are angry?
Psalm 110:5 The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.
Psalm 130:3 If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
Isaiah 63:4 It was for me the day of vengeance; the year for me to redeem had come.
Jeremiah 30:7 How awful that day will be! No other will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.
Joel 1:15 Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
Joel 2:1 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand--
Joel 2:11 The LORD thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number, and mighty is the army that obeys his command. The day of the LORD is great; it is dreadful. Who can endure it?
Nahum 1:6 Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; the rocks are shattered before him.
Zephaniah 1:14 The great day of the LORD is near-- near and coming quickly. The cry on the day of the LORD is bitter; the Mighty Warrior shouts his battle cry.