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Revelation 9:6

SufferingDeath and loss

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.

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 faces like the faces of men.

8 They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.

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BSB
In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
KJV
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
WEB
In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
ASV
And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.
DARBY
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall in no way find it; and shall desire to die, and death flees from them.
BLB
And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die, and death flees from them.
ÅB
Og i de dager skal menneskene søke døden og ikke finne den, og stunde etter å få dø, og døden skal flykte fra dem.
OTB
I de dager skal folk søke døden, men ikke finne den; de skal lengte etter å dø, men døden skal unnslippe dem.
B1930
Og i de dager skal menneskene søke døden og ikke finne den, og stunde efter å få dø, og døden skal fly fra dem.

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Cross references

  • Luke 23:30

    At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’

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  • Jeremiah 8:3

    And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

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  • Revelation 6:16

    And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

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  • Isaiah 2:19

    Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

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  • Hosea 10:8

    The high places of Aven will be destroyed— it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

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  • Job 7:15–16

    so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

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  • Job 3:20–22

    Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

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  • 2 Samuel 1:9

    Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’

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