Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
And in those days people will be looking for death, but they will not find it; and they will want to die, but death will elude them.
New American Standard Bible
And in those days
King James Version
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Holman Bible
In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
International Standard Version
In those days people will seek death, but never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them.
A Conservative Version
And in those days men will seek death, and will, no, not find it. And they will long to die, and death will flee from them.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die [to escape the pain], but [will discover that] death evades them.
Anderson New Testament
And in those days men will seek for death, and shall not find it; and they will desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Bible in Basic English
And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.
Common New Testament
And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will fly from them.
Daniel Mace New Testament
in those days shall men seek for death, but shall not find it; they will desire to die, and death will shun them.
Darby Translation
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall in no way find it; and shall desire to die, and death flees from them.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
And in these days men shall seek death, and shall not find it: and they shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them.
Godbey New Testament
And in those days men will seek death, and will not find it; and they will desire to die, and death flies from them.
Goodspeed New Testament
In those days men will seek death and never find it. They will want to die, but death will fly from them.
John Wesley New Testament
And in those days the men shall seek death, but not find it; and shall desire to die, but death will flee from them.
Julia Smith Translation
And in those days shall men seek death, and not find it; and shall eagerly desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
King James 2000
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.
Modern King James verseion
And in those days men will seek death and will not find it. And they will long to die, and death will flee from them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it, and shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them.
Moffatt New Testament
In those days men will seek death, but they will not find it: they will long to die, but death flies from them.
Montgomery New Testament
In those days men will seek death, and will not find it; they will long to die, but death ever flees from them.
NET Bible
In those days people will seek death, but will not be able to find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
New Heart 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.
Noyes New Testament
And in those days men will seek death, and shall not find it; and will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
Sawyer New Testament
And in those days men shall seek death and not find it, and shall desire to die and death flee from them.
The Emphasized Bible
And, in those days, shall men seek death, and in nowise shall find it, and shall covet to die, and death fleeth from them.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall earnestly desire to die, and death shall fly from them.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In those days men 'will seek Death and will not find it'; They will long to die, but Death flees from them.
Webster
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Weymouth New Testament
And at that time people will seek death, but will by no possibility find it, and will long to die, but death evades them.
Williams New Testament
In those days people will look for death but will not find it, they will long to die but death will flee from them.
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.
Worrell New Testament
And in those days will men seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they will desire to die, and death flees from them.
Worsley New Testament
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it: and they shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Themes
death » Sought as a relief from trouble sought » Despair lead men to
Despair » General references to
Topics
Interlinear
Zeteo
εὑρίσκω
heurisko
Usage: 130
Thanatos
θάνατος
Thanatos
Usage: 100
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in Revelation 9:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Tormenting Locusts From The Abyss
5 And the locusts were not given the power to kill these people, but [only] to torture them for five months. And the torment they would inflict was like a scorpion stinging a person. 6 And in those days people will be looking for death, but they will not find it; and they will want to die, but death will elude them. 7 And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads [they wore] what appeared to be golden crowns, and their faces looked like the faces of human beings.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Revelation 6:16
And they called out to the mountains, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of God, who sits on His throne, and from the anger of the Lamb.
Luke 23:30
Then they will begin to say to the mountains [Hosea 10:8], 'Fall on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us [up].'
John 4:8-9
(Now Jesus' disciples had gone away to town to buy some food).