SinaiRevelation 9:5
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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Revelation 9:5 in other translations
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.
Revelation 9:5 in context
- 3Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
- 4They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.
- 5They 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.
- 6In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
- 7The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces.