Revelation 9:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • Jer 8:3 : 3 Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Hosts.
  • Rev 6:16 : 16 They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
  • Job 7:15-16 : 15 So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones. 16 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath.
  • Isa 2:19 : 19 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, And into the holes of the earth, From before the terror of Yahweh, And from the glory of his majesty, When he arises to shake the earth mightily.
  • 2 Sam 1:9 : 9 He said to me, Stand, I pray you, beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul, 21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures, 22 Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave?
  • Hos 10:8 : 8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, "Cover us!" and the hills, "Fall on us!"
  • Luke 23:30 : 30 Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'
  • John 4:8-9 : 8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

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