Revelation 9:5 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

⁵ They were permitted to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of 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.

Revelation 9:5 Tagairtí Cros

John 19:11

Jesus answered, “Yoʋ would have no authority over me if it had not been given to yoʋ from above. Therefore he who handed me over to yoʋ has greater sin.”

Revelation 11:7

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will wage war against them, and overpower and kill them.

Revelation 13:5

The beast was given a mouth to utter great boasts and blasphemy, and he was given authority to wage war for forty-two months.

Revelation 13:7

He was permitted to wage war against the saints and conquer them, and he was given authority over every tribe, people, tongue, and nation.

Revelation 9:10

They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and in their tails they have the power to harm people for five months.

Revelation 9:3

Then out of the smoke locusts descended upon the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.