Revelation 9:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like serpents, with heads, and with them they inflict harm.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For, their tails are like to serpents, and have heads: and with them they hurt.

Revelation 9:19 Cross References

Isaiah 9:15

elders and dignitaries are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail,

Ephesians 4:14

We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming;

Revelation 9:10

They have tails like scorpions, with stingers, and in their tails is their power to harm people for five months.

Revelation 9:18

By these three plagues a third of humankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of the horses’ mouths.

Revelation 9:20

The rest of humankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands or give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.