Revelation 9:7
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.
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.
9 They also had thoraxes like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
- WEB
- The 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.
- ASV
- And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men`s faces.
- DARBY
- And the likenesses of the locusts [were] like to horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men;
- BLB
- And the likenesses of the locusts [were] like horses having been prepared for battle, and upon their heads [were something] like crowns, like gold, and their faces like the faces of men.
- ÅB
- Og gresshoppenes skikkelse var lik hester, rustet til krig, og på deres hoder var det slik som kroner som så ut som gull, og deres åsyn var som menneskers åsyn.
- OTB
- Gresshoppene så ut som hester forberedt til kamp. På hodene deres var noe som lignet kroner av gull, og ansiktene deres lignet menneskeansikter.
- B1930
- Og gresshoppenes skikkelse var lik hester, rustet til krig, og på deres hoder var det likesom kroner som så ut som gull, og deres åsyn var som menneskers åsyn.
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Original text and word study
Cross references
Daniel 7:8
While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
Read in contextNahum 3:17
Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.
Read in contextDaniel 7:4
The first beast was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and given the mind of a man.
Read in contextJoel 2:4–5
Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.
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