Revelation 9:6

In those days people will seek death, but will not find it. They will greatly desire to die, but death will flee from them.

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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

5They were not given permission to kill those people, but only to torture them for five months. Their agony would be like the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a person.

7The locusts looked like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 1:9He said to me, 'Please stand over me and kill me, for great suffering has taken hold of me, but life is still in me.'

Job 7:15so that I would choose strangling 1 and death rather than preserving these bones of mine. 1

Jeremiah 8:3In every remaining place where I have driven them, they will choose death instead of life for themselves, all who are still left over from this evil nation—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.

Luke 23:30Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us.'

Revelation 6:16They said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us! Hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the Lamb's wrath.

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 →

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