Revelation 9:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁵ They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it stings someone.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ They were not permitted to kill them, but to torment (distress, vex) them for five months; and the pain caused them was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a person.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man.

Common English Bible

⁵ The locusts weren’t allowed to kill them, but only to make them suffer for five months—and the suffering they inflict is like that of a scorpion when it strikes a person.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And it was given to them that they would not kill them, but that they would torture them for five months. And their torture was like the torture of a scorpion, when he strikes a man.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And it was given unto them that they should not kill them; but that they should torment them five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man.

Revelation 9:5 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 10:11

Now therefore, my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.” ’

2 Chronicles 10:14

and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice, saying, ‘My father made your yoke heavy,  , but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.’

Job 2:6

‘Very well,’ the Lord told Satan, ‘he is in your power; only spare his life.’

Ezekiel 2:6

‘But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them and do not be afraid of their words,  even though briars and thorns are beside you and you live among scorpions.  Don’t be afraid of their words or discouraged by the look on their faces, for they are a rebellious house.

Daniel 7:6

‘After this, while I was watching, suddenly another beast appeared. It was like a leopard  with four wings of a bird on its back. It had four heads,  and it was given dominion.

John 19:11

‘You would have no authority over me at all,’ Jesus answered him, ‘if it hadn’t been given to you from above. This is why the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.’

Revelation 11:7

When they finish their testimony, the beast  that comes up out of the abyss  will make war on them, conquer them, and kill them.

Revelation 13:5

The beast was given a mouth to utter boasts and blasphemies.  It was allowed to exercise authority  , for forty-two months.

Revelation 13:7

And it was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them.  It was also given authority  over every tribe, people, language, and nation.

Revelation 9:10

and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months.

Revelation 9:3

Then locusts came out of the smoke on to the earth,  and power  was given to them  like the power that scorpions have on the earth.