Literally, “men expiring from fear,” or “men fainting from fear.” The latter part of the verse gives as the climactic reason for men‘s hearts failing them for fear, the shaking of “the powers of heaven.” The scene here depicted takes place under the seventh plague (EW 41; GC 636). Upon this scene “the wicked look with terror and amazement” (GC 636), calling for the mountains and the rocks to fall upon them (Rev. 6:14-17).