Revelation 9:7
5 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.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
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.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to 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.
Compare
- 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
I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Read in contextNahum 3:17
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Read in contextDaniel 7:4
The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.
Read in contextJoel 2:4–5
The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
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