They were told not to (A)hurt the (B)grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the people who do not have the (C)seal of God on their foreheads. And [a]they were not permitted to kill [b]anyone, but to torment for (D)five months; and their torment was like the torment of a (E)scorpion when it [c]stings a person. And in those days (F)people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death [d]will flee from them!

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 9:5 Lit it was given to them
  2. Revelation 9:5 Lit them
  3. Revelation 9:5 Lit strikes
  4. Revelation 9:6 Lit flees (intensive expression)

They were told not to harm(A) the grass of the earth or any plant or tree,(B) but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.(C) They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months.(D) And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion(E) when it strikes. During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.(F)

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