³⁴ At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, “The earth is going to swallow us too!”

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free,^(A) hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.^{(B) 16} They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us^(C) and hide us^[a] from the face of him who sits on the throne^(D) and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ For the great day^(E) of their^[b] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”^(F)

⁵ You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake^[a](A) in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come,^(B) and all the holy ones with him.^(C)

¹² The Israelites said to Moses, “We will die! We are lost, we are all lost!^{(A) 13} Anyone who even comes near the tabernacle of the Lord will die.^(B) Are we all going to die?”