19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are similar in appearance to snakes, having heads, and with them they cause injury.[a]

20 And the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, in order not to worship[b] the demons and the gold and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols, which are able neither to see nor to hear nor to walk, 21 and they did not repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual immorality or of their thefts.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 9:19 Literally “they injure”
  2. Revelation 9:20 Literally “so that they did not worship”

19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.

20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent(A) of the work of their hands;(B) they did not stop worshiping demons,(C) and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.(D) 21 Nor did they repent(E) of their murders, their magic arts,(F) their sexual immorality(G) or their thefts.

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