New American Standard Bible 2020

Revelation 9:5-6

5And 1they were not permitted to kill 2anyone, but to torment for 3five months; and their torment was like the torment of a 4scorpion when it 5stings a person. 6And in those days 6people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death 7will flee from them!

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1. Revelation 9:5 Lit it was given to them ↩
2. Revelation 9:5 Lit them ↩
3. Revelation 9:5 Rev 9:10 ↩
4. Revelation 9:5 2 Chr 10:11, 14; Ezek 2:6; Rev 9:3, 10 ↩
5. Revelation 9:5 Lit strikes ↩
6. Revelation 9:6 Job 3:21; 7:15; Jer 8:3; Rev 6:16 ↩
7. Revelation 9:6 Lit flees (intensive expression) ↩

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