Revelation 9:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For the power of the horses resides in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails are like snakes, having heads that inflict injuries.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 9:15 : 15 The leaders and the highly respected people are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.
  • Rev 9:10 : 10 They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails.

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    7Now the locusts looked like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were something like crowns similar to gold, and their faces looked like men’s faces.

    8They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.

    9They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle.

    10They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails.

    11They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.

  • Rev 9:15-18
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    15Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour, day, month, and year were set free to kill a third of humanity.

    16The number of soldiers on horseback was two hundred million; I heard their number.

    17Now this is what the horses and their riders looked like in my vision: The riders had breastplates that were fiery red, dark blue, and sulfurous yellow in color. The heads of the horses looked like lions’ heads, and fire, smoke, and sulfur came out of their mouths.

    18A third of humanity was killed by these three plagues, that is, by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths.

  • Rev 9:3-5
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    3Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

    4They were told not to damage the grass of the earth, or any green plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their forehead.

    5The locusts were not given permission to kill them, but only to torture them for five months, and their torture was like that of a scorpion when it stings a person.

  • Rev 11:5-7
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    5If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and completely consumes their enemies. If anyone wants to harm them, they must be killed this way.

    6These two have the power to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time they are prophesying. They have power to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want.

    7When they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them.

  • 20The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood– idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.

  • Rev 19:18-21
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    18to eat your fill of the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of powerful people, the flesh of horses and those who ride them, and the flesh of all people, both free and slave, and small and great!”

    19Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to do battle with the one who rode the horse and with his army.

    20Now the beast was seized, and along with him the false prophet who had performed the signs on his behalf– signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.

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    16The snorting of the enemy’s horses is already being heard in the city of Dan. The sound of the neighing of their stallions causes the whole land to tremble with fear. They are coming to destroy the land and everything in it! They are coming to destroy the cities and everyone who lives in them!”

    17The LORD says,“Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.”

  • 8Their horses are faster than leopards and more alert than wolves in the desert. Their horses gallop, their horses come a great distance; like vultures they swoop down quickly to devour their prey.

  • 28Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are prepared. The hooves of their horses are hard as flint, and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm.

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    4They look like horses; they charge ahead like war horses.

    5They sound like chariots rumbling over mountain tops, like the crackling of blazing fire consuming stubble, like the noise of a mighty army being drawn up for battle.

  • 2Now the beast that I saw was like a leopard, but its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority to rule.

  • 15From his mouth extends a sharp sword, so that with it he can strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod, and he stomps the winepress of the furious wrath of God, the All-Powerful.

  • 8So I looked and here came a pale green horse! The name of the one who rode it was Death, and Hades followed right behind. They were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill its population with the sword, famine, and disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.

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    16The ten horns that you saw, and the beast– these will hate the prostitute and make her desolate and naked. They will consume her flesh and burn her up with fire.

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  • 13These kings have a single intent, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.

  • 9So that huge dragon– the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world– was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

  • 19Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.

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    3Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon that had seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadem crowns.

    4Now the dragon’s tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.

  • 17May Dan be a snake beside the road, a viper by the path, that bites the heels of the horse so that its rider falls backward.

  • 4they worshiped the dragon because he had given ruling authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast too, saying:“Who is like the beast?” and“Who is able to make war against him?”

  • 15This is the kind of plague that will devastate horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other animals in those camps.

  • 24They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.

  • 3then the hand of the LORD will surely bring a very terrible plague on your livestock in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.

  • 3The charioteers will charge ahead; their swords will flash and their spears will glimmer! There will be many people slain; there will be piles of the dead, and countless casualties– so many that people will stumble over the corpses.

  • 9They went up on the broad plain of the earth and encircled the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and devoured them completely.

  • 15Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood,

  • 11Then I saw another beast coming up from the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but was speaking like a dragon.

  • 9and a third of the creatures living in the sea died, and a third of the ships were completely destroyed.