Revelation 9:19 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ For the power of the horses to do harm is in their mouths and also in their tails. Their tails are like serpents, for they have heads, and it is by means of them that they wound people.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ The horses’ power is in their mouths and their tails, for their tails are like snakes with heads that inflict injuries.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ For the power of these horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails resemble serpents, having heads; and it is with these that they cause harm.

Revelation 9:19 Cross References

Ephesians 4:14

Then we will no longer be [spiritual] babies, tossed back and forth [by waves], and blown around by every wind of [false] teaching, [deceived] by the clever trickery of people using deceptive schemes.

Revelation 9:10

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

Revelation 9:18

One third of mankind was killed by these three plagues --- the fire, the smoke and the sulfur, which proceeded out of the horses’ mouths.

Revelation 9:20

And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, [still] did not repent of what they had made with their hands [i.e., their idolatry]. They did not stop worshiping demons, and gold, silver, brass, stone and wooden idols, which can neither see, nor hear nor walk.