Revelation 9:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Locusts came out of the smoke and covered the earth. They were given the same power that scorpions have.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:11

He made you work hard, but I'll make you work even harder. He punished you with whips, but I'll use whips with pieces of sharp metal!”

2 Chronicles 10:11

He made you work hard, but I'll make you work even harder. He punished you with whips, but I'll use whips with pieces of sharp metal!”

2 Chronicles 10:14

and told them exactly what his own advisers had suggested. He said: “My father made you work hard, but I'll make you work even harder. He punished you with whips, but I'll use whips with pieces of sharp metal!”

Isaiah 33:4

We attack our enemies like swarms of locusts; we take everything that belongs to them.

Ezekiel 2:6

Don't be afraid of them or of anything they say. You may think you're in the middle of thorn bushes or scorpions. But be brave

Joel 1:4

Swarm after swarm of locusts has attacked our crops, eating everything in sight.

Joel 2:25

I, the LORD your God, will make up for the losses caused by those swarms and swarms of locusts I sent to attack you.

Nahum 3:15

You will still go up in flames and be cut down by swords that will wipe you out like wheat attacked by grasshoppers. So, go ahead and increase like a swarm of locusts!

Nahum 3:17

Your guards and your officials are swarms of locusts. On a chilly day they settle on a fence, but when the sun comes out, they take off to who-knows-where.

Luke 10:19

I have given you the power to trample on snakes and scorpions and to defeat the power of your enemy Satan. Nothing can harm you.

Deuteronomy 8:15

Remember how he led you in that huge and frightening desert where poisonous snakes and scorpions live. There was no water, but the LORD split open a rock, and water poured out so you could drink.

Revelation 9:5

The locusts were allowed to make them suffer for five months, but not to kill them. The suffering they caused was like the sting of a scorpion.

Revelation 9:7

These locusts looked like horses ready for battle. On their heads they wore something like gold crowns, and they had human faces.

Judges 7:12

The camp was huge. The Midianites, Amalekites, and other eastern nations covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. And it would be easier to count the grains of sand on a beach than to count their camels.