Revelation 9:6

New American Bible - revised edition

During that time these people will seek death but will not find it, and they will long to die but death will escape them.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:9

Then he said to me, ‘Stand over me, please, and put me to death, for I am in great suffering, but still alive.’

Isaiah 2:19

People will go into caves in the rocks and into holes in the earth, At the terror of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, as he rises to overawe the earth.

Jeremiah 8:3

Death will be preferred to life by all the survivors of this wicked people who remain in any of the places to which I banish them—oracle of the Lord of hosts.

Hosea 10:8

The high places of Aven will be destroyed, the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will cry out to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall upon us!”

Luke 23:30

At that time people will say to the mountains, ‘Fall upon us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’

Revelation 6:16

They cried out to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,