Revelation 9:10

10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.

Revelation 9:10 in Other Translations

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

10 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.

10 They had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five months they had the power to torment people.

10 Their tails were equipped with stings, like scorpion tails. With those tails they were ordered to torture the human race for five months.

10 and they had tails with stingers, like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months.

Revelation 9:10 Meaning and Commentary

Revelation 9:10

And they had tails like unto scorpions
Locusts are said to have the tail of a serpent, and of the vipers of the earth ^F21; (See Gill on Revelation 9:3), (See Gill on Revelation 9:5). And there were stings in their tails; either in the baser sort of them, the Saracens and Papists; or in their doctrines, the prophet being the tail, ( Isaiah 9:15 ) ; with which both Mahomet, who set himself up for a prophet, and the Romish clergy, who set up their decrees and unwritten traditions above the word of God, have poisoned and destroyed multitudes of souls:

and their power [was] to hurt men five months;
(See Gill on Revelation 9:5).

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 Scriptores Arab.

Revelation 9:10 In-Context

8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.

9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.

10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.

11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).

12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.

Cross References

• 1. ver 3,5,19