Revelation 9:5

KJV

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.

— Revelation 9:5, King James Version
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Context

This verse from Revelation Chapter 9 connects to 10 cross-references. The fifth trumpet: a star falls from heaven and opens the pit releasing locusts like armored horses with human faces and scorpion tails that torment for five months those without the seal of God. The sixth trumpet releases four angels …

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Other Translations

ASV

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.

YLT

and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment <FI>is<Fi> as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;

BBE

And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.

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