Revelation 9:4-6

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⁴ They were told not to damage the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.^{(A) 5} They were allowed to torment them for five months but not to kill them, and the agony suffered was like that caused by a scorpion when it stings someone.^{(B) 6} And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.^(C)