Revelation 9:5

New Testament · SCRIPTURE

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.

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KJV

King James Version

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment [was] as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

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WEB

World English Bible

They were given power, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a person.

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ASV

American Standard Version

And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man.

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they will torment [them] five months. And their torment [was] as [the] torment of a scorpion when it might strike a man.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Revelation 9

³ And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

⁴ They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

⁵ The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.

⁶ In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.

⁷ And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads; and their faces were like the faces of men.

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