Revelation 9:5

World English Bible (2000)

They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.

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  • Rev 9:10 : 10 They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.
  • Rev 9:3 : 3 Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
  • Rev 11:7 : 7 When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
  • Rev 13:5 : 5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
  • Rev 13:7 : 7 It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
  • Job 2:6 : 6 Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."
  • Dan 5:18-22 : 18 You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty: 19 and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he killed, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down. 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 21 and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals', and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will. 22 You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
  • Dan 7:6 : 6 After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the animal had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."

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  • Rev 9:9-12
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    87%

    9 They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.

    10 They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

    11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon," but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon."

    12 The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.

  • Rev 9:3-4
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    3 Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

    4 They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don't have God's seal on their foreheads.

  • Rev 9:6-7
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    6 In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

    7 The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people's faces.

  • Rev 9:18-21
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    18 By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.

    19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.

    20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.

    21 They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.

  • Rev 9:15
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    15 The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.

  • Rev 16:8-11
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    8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.

    9 People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.

    10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

    11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn't repent of their works.

  • Rev 11:5-7
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    5 If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.

    6 These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.

    7 When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

  • Rev 11:9-11
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    9 From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

    10 Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

    11 After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.

  • Rev 14:9-11
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    9 Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or on his hand,

    10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

    11 The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.

  • Rev 16:2
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    2 The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.

  • Rev 6:8-11
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    8 And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

    9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

    10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

    11 A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

  • Rev 7:3
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    3 saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!"

  • Rev 13:15
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    15 It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn't worship the image of the beast to be killed.

  • Rev 13:5
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    5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.

  • Rev 17:8
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    8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

  • Rev 20:4
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    4 I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn't worship the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

  • Mark 9:44
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    44 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'

  • Rev 11:18
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    18 The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."

  • Mark 9:46
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    46 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'

  • Rev 13:10
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    10 If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

  • Rev 2:10
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    10 Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

  • Rev 9:1
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    1 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.

  • Rev 15:7
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    7 One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.

  • Deut 32:24
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    24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

  • Mark 9:48
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    48 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'

  • Rev 19:21
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    21 The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came forth out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.

  • Rev 20:9-10
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    9 They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them.

    10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

  • Rev 13:7
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    7 It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.

  • Rev 8:9
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    9 and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed.