Revelation 9:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.”
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Revelation 9:6 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 1:9Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’
- Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
- Isaiah 2:19Men 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.
- Jeremiah 8:3And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Hosea 10:8The 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!”
- Luke 23:30At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
- John 4:8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
- Revelation 6:16And 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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).