Revelation 9:5
The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
They were given power, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a person.
And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- it was
- Revelation 13:5, 7; Daniel 5:18–22; Daniel 7:6; John 19:11
- they should not
- That is, should not kill them as a political body, state, or empire; and accordingly, however they desolated the Greek and Latin churches, they could not extirpate them, nor gain possession of the empire.
- Revelation 11:7; Job 2:6
- they should be
- Revelation 9:10
- and their
- Revelation 9:3