Bible verse
They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.
Revelation 9:10 · BSB
The verses around it, from 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.
7 And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men.
8 They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.
9 They also had thoraxes like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
10 They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.
11 They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.
12 The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still to follow.
13 Then the sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God
14 saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
KJV
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power [was] to hurt men five months.
ASV
And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.
ERV
And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.
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