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Revelation 9:6

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.

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  • WEB 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.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    And in those dayes shall men seke deeth and shall not fynde it and shall desyre to dye and deeth shall flye from them.

  • GNV 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.

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Cross-references (8)

Passages linked to Revelation 9:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Luke 23:30 Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’
  • Jeremiah 8:3 Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Revelation 6:16 They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
  • Isaiah 2:19 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
  • Hosea 10:8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, “Cover us!” and the hills, “Fall on us!”
  • Job 7:15-16 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
  • Job 3:20-22 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
  • 2 Samuel 1:9 He said to me, ‘Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life lingers in me.’

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Explain this verse (12 sources)

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 6 And in those days shall men seek death,…

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

Ver. 6. Shall men seek death] Being brought through anguish of conscience, and fear of wrath, to that pitiful plight that Roger Bishop of Salisbury was, in King Stephen’s time, through long and strait imprisonment. He was so hardly bestead (saith the historian) ut vivere noluerit, mori nescierit, that live he would not, die he could not Popish pardons, pilgrimages, dirges, &c., would not quiet or cure distempered consciences, or shake out the envenomed arrows of the Almighty, that stuck fast in them, haeret lateri lethalis arundo. A broken leg is not eased by a silken stocking. Nescio quomodo imbecillior est medicina quam morbus, said Cicero of his philosophical consolations; so may these well say of their Popish paltry applications, The medicine is too weak for the malady. The Papists say, that the reformed religion is a doctrine of desperation. This we are sure is true of theirs, as were easy to instance in Stephen Gardiner, Dr Pendleton, Francis Spira, Guarlaeus, Bomelins, Latomus, Crescentius.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The calamities of those days shall be so great,…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And in those days men shall seek death,.... Or…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The men - That is, the men who are…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. In those days shall men seek death]…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And in those days shall men seek death ...…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain shall desire--Greek, "eagerly desire"; set their mind on.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6. In those days—The days of the five locustine…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. shall flee] Lit. fleeth.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) And in those days . . .—Translate, And…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And in those days shall men seek death, and…
B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 6. Shall men seek death. So terrible will be…

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