Revelation 9:6

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 any grass, green plant, or tree on the earth. They could harm only the people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5They were not allowed to kill them. They were only allowed to torture them for five months. Their torture was like the pain of a scorpion’s sting. At that time people will look for death and never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them. 7The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. They seemed to have crowns that looked like gold on their heads. Their faces were like human faces. 8They had hair like women’s hair and teeth like lions’ teeth.

Revelation 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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Andκαίkai · andG2532
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• thoseἐκεῖνοςekeinos · thatG1565
• daysὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• daysἡμέραhēmera · dayG2250
• shallζητέωzēteō · to seekG2212
• menἄνθρωποςanthrōpos · a humanG444
• deathθάνατοςthanatos · deathG2288
• shallεὑρίσκωheuriskō · to find/meetG2147
• notοὐou · noG3756
• itαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• shall desireἐπιθυμέωepithumeō · to long forG1937
• to dieἀποθνήσκωapothnēskō · to dieG599
• shall fleeφεύγωpheugō · to fleeG5343
• fromἀπόapo · away fromG575

Cross-references for Revelation 9:6

• Revelation 6:16They said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the anger of the lamb,
• 2 Samuel 1:9“He said to me, ‘Please stand over me and kill me. I’m alive, but I’m suffering.’
• Job 3:20“Why give light to one in misery and life to those who find it so bitter,
• Job 7:15My throat would rather be choked. My body would prefer death ⌞to these dreams⌟.
• Isaiah 2:19People will go into caves in the rocks and into holes in the ground because of the Lord’s terrifying presence and the honor of his majesty when he rises to terrify the earth.
• Jeremiah 8:3“Then the few who remain from these wicked people will want to die rather than live where I will scatter them,” declares the Lord of Armies.
• Hosea 10:8The illegal worship sites of Aven will be destroyed. Israel sins there. Thorns and weeds will grow over those altars. People will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
• John 4:8(His disciples had gone into the city to buy some food.)
• Luke 23:30Then people 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

Topics related to Revelation 9:6

• Death
• Despondency
• Locust
• Suicide
• Trumpet
• Vision
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Abaddon
• Angel
• Authority in Religion
• Day
• Gods
• Government
• Revelation of John
• Scorpion
• Sincere; Sincerity

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