Revelation 9:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

As oft as the trumpet soundeth he saith, Aha! And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting

Job 40:18

His bones are as tubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of iron.

Isaiah 9:5

For all the armour of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire.

Jeremiah 47:3

At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of hands;

Revelation 9:17

And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates as of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone: and the heads of the horses are as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceedeth fire and smoke and brimstone.