Revelation 9:6 “In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long…”

Revelation 9:6

In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

American Standard Version

And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore in those dayes shall men seeke death, and shall not finde it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flie from them.

Darby Translation

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall in no way find it; and shall desire to die, and death flees from them.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.

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Cross references

“shall men”

Jeremiah 8:3 Luke 23:30 Revelation 6:16 Isaiah 2:19 Hosea 10:8 Job 3:20–22

Jeremiah 8:3 · BSB

And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Luke 23:30 · BSB

At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’

Revelation 6:16 · BSB

And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

Isaiah 2:19 · BSB

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Hosea 10:8 · BSB

The high places of Aven will be destroyed— it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

Job 3:20–22 · BSB

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5The 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.

7And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads; and their faces were like the faces of men.

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