Revelation 9:6

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

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 them, that they should not kill them, but torture them five months. And their torture was as the torture of a scorpion when he striketh a man.

7And the likeness of those locusts (was this): they resemble the appearance of horses prepared for battle. And upon their heads (was) a crown of the likeness of gold; and their faces (were) as the faces of men.

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Cross References

Luke 23:30Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us! and to the heights, Cover us!

Revelation 6:16saying to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him who 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 →

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