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

4And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. 5And 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. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. 8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

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

• 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 6:16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
• 2 Samuel 1:9He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.
• Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
• Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
• Isaiah 2:19And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of Yhwh, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
• Jeremiah 8:3And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith Yhwh of Armies.
• Hosea 10:8The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
• John 4:8(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
• Luke 23:30Then shall they 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