Now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’ ”
Revelation 9:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They have tails like scorpions, with stingers, and in their tails is their power to harm people for five months. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They have tails like scorpions, and they have stings, and in their tails lies their ability to hurt men for [the] five months. American Standard Version (1901) And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months. Common English Bible They also have tails with stingers, just like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to hurt people for five months. Catholic Public Domain Version And they had tails similar to scorpions. And there were stingers in their tails, and these had the power to harm men for five months. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they had tails like to scorpions, and there were stings in their tails; and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had over them |
Now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’ ”
he spoke to them in accordance with the advice of the young men, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”
And you, O mortal, do not be afraid of them, and do not be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words, and do not be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.
For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like serpents, with heads, and with them they inflict harm.
Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given authority like the authority of scorpions of the earth.
They were allowed to torment them for five months but not to kill them, and the agony suffered was like that caused by a scorpion when it stings someone.