Revelation 9:10 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁰ And they had tails like scorpions with stingers, and in their tails they had the power to inflict harm upon people for five months.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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)

¹⁰ And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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.

Revelation 9:10 Cross References

Luke 11:12

Or, if he asks [him] for an egg, will give him a scorpion [instead]? [Note: While at rest a scorpion rolls up in a ball that resembles an egg].

Revelation 9:19

For the power of the horses [to kill] is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like snakes that have heads with which to harm people.

Revelation 9:3

And locusts swarmed down out of the smoke to earth and they were given power like scorpions on earth have.

Revelation 9:5

And the locusts were not given the power to kill these people, but [only] to torture them for five months. And the torment they would inflict was like a scorpion stinging a person.