Berean Standard Bible
Revelation 9:6
6In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
Revelation 9:6 in other versions
- King James Version (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.
- New International Version (NIV)During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
Context of Revelation 9:6
4They 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. 5The 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. 7And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads; and their faces were like the faces of men. 8They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.
Read all of Revelation 9Revelation 9:6 word by word
Καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις ζητήσουσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι τὸν θάνατον καὶ οὐ μὴ εὑρήσουσιν αὐτόν· καὶ ἐπιθυμήσουσιν ἀποθανεῖν, καὶ φεύγει ὁ θάνατος ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν.Read the interlinear
- ·καίkai · andG2532
- Inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
- thoseἐκεῖνοςekeinos · thatG1565
- ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- daysἡμέραhēmera · dayG2250
- menἄνθρωποςanthrōpos · a humanG444
- will seekζητέωzēteō · to seekG2212
- deathθάνατοςthanatos · deathG2288
- will not findοὐou · noG3756
- will not findμήmē · notG3361
- will not findεὑρίσκωheuriskō · to find/meetG2147
- itαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
- they will longἐπιθυμέωepithumeō · to long forG1937
- to dieἀποθνήσκωapothnēskō · to dieG599
- will escapeφεύγωpheugō · to fleeG5343
- will escapeἀπόapo · away fromG575
Cross-references for Revelation 9:6
- Revelation 6:16And 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.
- 2 Samuel 1:9Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’
- Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
- Isaiah 2:19Men 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.
- Jeremiah 8:3And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Hosea 10:8The 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!”
- John 4:8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
- Luke 23:30At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
Commentaries on Revelation 9:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6In those days shall men seek death - So distressing shall be their sufferings and torment that they shall long for death in any form, to be rescued from the evils of life. There is a sentiment much like this in Maximianus, Eleg. i., ver. 111, commonly attributed to Cornelius Gallus: - Nunc quia longa mihi gravis est et inutilis aetas, Vivere cum nequeam, sit mihi posse mori? O quam dura premit miseros conditio vitae! Nec mors humano subjacet arbitrio…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6And in those days shall men seek death - See the notes on Revelation 9:5. It is very easy to conceive of such a state of things as is here described, and, indeed, this has not been very uncommon in the world. It is a state where the distress is so great that people would consider death a relief, and where they anxiously look to the time when they may be released from their sufferings by death. In the case before us it is not intimated that they would…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-12The fifth trumpet is the first of the three terrors (Revelation 8:13). It brings a judgment of locusts from the bottomless pit, a place of horror. Ancient cultures thought the ocean depths, or the Abyss, was a home for demonic forces (see study note on Genesis 1:2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. shall desire--Greek, "eagerly desire"; set their mind on. shall flee--So B, Vulgate, Syriac, and Coptic read. But A and Aleph read, "fleeth," namely continually. In Re 6:16, which is at a later stage of God's judgments, the ungodly seek annihilation, not from the torment of their suffering, but from fear of the face of the Lamb before whom they have to stand.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Revelation 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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