Revelation 9:6

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die, and death flees from them.

Latin

Et in diebus illis quærent homines mortem, et non invenient eam: et desiderabunt mori, et fugiet mors ab eis.

Original

Greek

English

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

Notes

Revelation 9:1–12

The fifth trumpet is the first of the three terrors (Revelation 8:13). It brings a judgment of locusts from the bottomless pit, a place of horror. Ancient cultures thought the ocean depths, or the Abyss, was a home for demonic forces (see study note on Genesis 1:2).

Revelation 9:1–21

The fifth and sixth trumpets show how God's judgment affects people worldwide and highlight how worthless it is to resist God. These judgments should lead to repentance, but they do not. Sin controls people so much that they choose to worship the evil forces that harm them instead of repenting and turning to God.

Revelation 8:2–11:19

The second series of judgments involves seven trumpets. Like the first series (Revelation 6:1–8:1), it includes a pause (10:1–11:14; compare 7:1–17) and concludes with a view of God's eternal kingdom (11:15–19; see 7:9–8:1).
The trumpet judgments are similar to the ten plagues of Egypt (Exodus 7:14–11:10). They aim to show that earthly gods (or evil powers) are powerless and to clearly demonstrate God's power and control.

Theme notes and profiles

The Purpose of the Judgments Visions

Related verses

Luke 23:30
At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
Jeremiah 8:3
And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Revelation 6:16
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
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
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 7:15–16
…so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
Job 3:20–22
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
2 Samuel 1:9
Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’
John 4:8–9
(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) Book of Revelation Bottomless Pit Place of the Dead Scorpion

Topics

Death: Desired Despair: Produced in the Wicked by Divine Judgments Despondency: General Scriptures Concerning Locust: Symbolical Suicide: General Scriptures Concerning Trumpet: Symbolical Vision of John on the Island of Patmos: The Locusts Zombies

Revelation 9:6

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