Revelation 9:19 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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

the elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;

Ephesians 4:14

so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles.

Revelation 9:10

They have tails like scorpions, and stings, and their power of hurting men for five months lies in their tails.

Revelation 9:18

By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulphur issuing from their mouths.

Revelation 9:20

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot either see or hear or walk;