Revelation 9:10

And they had tails like to scorpions, and there were stings in their tails; and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had over them

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

In Context

9And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle.

11A king, the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans,

Read all of Revelation 9

Cross References

Luke 11:12Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion?

Revelation 9:5And it was given unto them that they should not kill them; but that they should torment them five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 9:2-13

The Seven Trumpets. ( a. d. 95.) 1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was commanded them that they… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Revelation 9:10