Revelation 9:10

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

Cross References

Luke 11:12

Or, if he asks [him] for an egg, will give him a scorpion [instead]? [Note: While at rest a scorpion rolls up in a ball that resembles an egg].

Revelation 9:19

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.

Revelation 9:3

And locusts swarmed down out of the smoke to earth and they were given power like scorpions on earth have.

Revelation 9:5

And the locusts were not given the power to kill these people, but [only] to torture them for five months. And the torment they would inflict was like a scorpion stinging a person.