Revelation 9:6 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁶ And in those days people will be looking [i.e., hoping] for death, but they will not find it; and they will want to die, but death will elude them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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

⁶ 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)

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

Luke 23:30

Then they will begin to say to the mountains [Hosea 10:8], ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us [up].’

Revelation 6:16

And they called out to the mountains, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of God, who sits on His throne, and from the anger of the Lamb. For the terrible day of their anger has come, and who will be able to survive it?”