Revelation 11:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ For three and a half days members of the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ For three and a half days men from the races and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and will not allow them to be put in a tomb.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do men look upon their dead bodies three days and a half, and suffer not their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

Common English Bible

⁹ And for three and a half days, members of the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will look at their dead bodies, but they won’t let their dead bodies be put in a tomb.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And those from the tribes and peoples and languages and nations shall be watching their bodies for three and one half days. And they shall not permit their bodies to be placed in tombs.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And they of the tribes, and peoples, and tongues, and nations, shall see their bodies for three days and a half: and they shall not suffer their bodies to be laid in sepulchres.

Revelation 11:9 Cross References

1 Kings 13:22

but have come back and have eaten food and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, ‘Eat no food, and drink no water,’ your body shall not come to your ancestral tomb.”

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to the destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom no one has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have stopped dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.

Jeremiah 7:33

The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the animals of the earth, and no one will frighten them away.

Matthew 7:2

For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.

Revelation 10:11

Then they said to me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and languages and kings.”

Revelation 11:11

But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet, and those who saw them were terrified.

Revelation 13:7

Also, it was allowed to wage war on the saints and to conquer them. It was given authority over every tribe and people and language and nation,

Revelation 17:15

And he said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the whore is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.

Revelation 5:8

When he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Revelation 5:9

They sing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God saints from every tribe and language and people and nation;