Revelation 9:6
Revelation chapter 9 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.
Context
v.5And 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.
v.6This passage
v.7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men’s faces.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 8:3
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith Jehovah of hosts.
- Job 7:15
So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.
- Job 3:20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
- Luke 23:30
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
- Revelation 6:16
and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
- Hosea 10:8
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.