Revelation 9:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will yearn to die, but death evades and flees from them. [Job 3:21.]

American Standard Version (1901)

And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.

Common English Bible

In those days people will seek death, but they won’t find it. They will want to die, but death will run away from them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And in those days, men will seek death and they will not find it. And they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And in those days men shall seek death, and shall not find it: and they shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them.

Revelation 9:6 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:9

And he said unto me, Stand, I pray thee, beside me, and slay me, for anguish hath taken hold of me; because my life is yet whole in me.

Isaiah 2:19

And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

Jeremiah 8:3

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

Hosea 10:8

The 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.

Luke 23:30

Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

Revelation 6:16

and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: