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 damage the grass of the earth, or any green plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their forehead. 5The locusts were not given permission to kill them, but only to torture them for five months, and their torture was like that of a scorpion when it stings a person. In those days people will seek death, but will not be able to find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them. 7Now the locusts looked like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were something like crowns similar to gold, and their faces looked like men’s faces. 8They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were 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 to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,
• 2 Samuel 1:9He said to me, ‘Stand over me and finish me off! I’m very dizzy, even though I’m still alive.’
• Job 3:20“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
• Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.
• Isaiah 2:19They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.
• Jeremiah 8:3However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived,” says the Lord who rules over all.
• Hosea 10:8The high places of the “House of Wickedness” will be destroyed; it is the place where Israel sins. Thorns and thistles will grow up over its altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
• John 4:8(For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)
• Luke 23:30Then they will begin to 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