⁵ They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months.^(A) And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion^(B) when it strikes. ⁶ During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.^(C)

⁷ The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle.^(D) On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.^(E)