Revelation 9:10
Good News Translation
They have tails and stings like those of a scorpion, and it is with their tails that they have the power to hurt people for five months.

New Revised Standard Version
They have tails like scorpions, with stingers, and in their tails is their power to harm people for five months.

Contemporary English Version
Their tails were like a scorpion's tail with a stinger that had the power to hurt someone for five months.

New American Bible
They had tails like scorpions, with stingers; with their tails they had power to harm people for five months.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they had tails like to scorpions: and there were stings in their tails. And their power was to hurt men, five months. And they had over them

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they had tails like to scorpions: and there were stings in their tails. And their power was to hurt men, five months. And they had over them

tails.

Revelation 9:3,5 And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. . . .

Context
The Fifth Trumpet
9And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron: and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle. 10And they had tails like to scorpions: and there were stings in their tails. And their power was to hurt men, five months. And they had over them 11A king, the angel of the bottomless pit (whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon, in Latin Exterminans).…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 10:11
My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, and I will add more weight to it: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.

2 Chronicles 10:14
And he spoke according to the advice of the young men: My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, which I will make heavier: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.

Ezekiel 2:6
And thou, O son of man, fear not, neither be thou afraid of their words: for thou art among unbelievers and destroyers, and thou dwellest with scorpions. Fear not their words, neither be thou dismayed at their looks: for they are a provoking house.

Revelation 9:3
And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Revelation 9:5
And 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.

Revelation 9:19
For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For, their tails are like to serpents and have heads: and with them they hurt.

Revelation 9:9
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