Revelation 9:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Their breastplates (scales) resembled breastplates made of iron, and the [whirring] noise made by their wings was like the roar of a vast number of horse-drawn chariots going at full speed into battle. [Joel 2:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to war.

Common English Bible

In front they had what seemed to be iron armor upon their chests, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of many chariots and horses racing into battle.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And they had breastplates like iron breastplates. And the noise of their wings was like the noise of many running horses, rushing to battle.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle.

Revelation 9:9 Cross References

Job 39:25

When the trumpet sounds, it says ‘Aha!’ From a distance it smells the battle, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

Job 40:18

Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

Isaiah 9:5

For all the boots of the tramping warriors and all the garments rolled in blood shall be burned as fuel for the fire.

Jeremiah 47:3

At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the clatter of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, parents do not turn back for children, so feeble are their hands,

Revelation 9:17

And this was how I saw the horses in my vision: the riders wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur; the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.