Revelation 9:6

And in those days men shall seek death, and shall not find it: and they shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

In Context

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.

7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle: and on their heads were, as it were, crowns like gold: and their faces were as the faces of men.

Read all of Revelation 9

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:9And he said to me: Stand over me, and kill me: for anguish is come upon me, and as yet my whole life is in me.

Job 7:15So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.

Jeremiah 8:3And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that shall remain of this wicked kindred in all places, which are left, to which I have cast them out, saith the Lord of hosts.

Luke 23:30Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us; and to the hills: Cover us.

Revelation 6:16And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb:

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 9:6