Revelation 9:6

Contemporary English Version 1995

In those days people will want to die, but they will not be able to. They will hope for death, but it will escape from them.

Cross References

Jeremiah 8:3

Some of you people of Judah will be left alive, but I will force you to go to foreign countries, and you will wish you were dead. I, the Lord God All-Powerful, have spoken.

Luke 23:30

At that time everyone will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” They will say to the hills, “Hide us!”

Revelation 6:16

Then they shouted to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us! Hide us from the one who sits on the throne and from the anger of the Lamb.

Isaiah 2:19

You had better hide in caves and holes— the Lord will be fearsome, marvelous, and glorious when he comes to terrify people on earth.

Hosea 10:8

The altars at sinful Bethel will be destroyed for causing Israel to sin; they will be grown over with thorns and thistles. Then everyone will beg the mountains and hills to cover and protect them.

2 Samuel 1:9

Then he said, “Kill me! I'm dying, and I'm in terrible pain.”