Revelation 9:6

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“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.”

— WEB

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

— KJV

“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.”

— ASV

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Luke 23:30 "Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’Hosea 10:8"
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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 ma…"
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 tel…"
Job 7:15-16 "so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones."
Job 3:20-22 "“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,"
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.’"

Commentary

shall desire--Greek, "eagerly desire"; set their mind on. shall flee--So B, Vulgate, Syriac, and Coptic read. But A and Aleph read, "fleeth," namely continually. In Rev 6:16, which is at a later stage of God's judgments, the ungodly seek annihilation, not from the torment of their suffering, but from fear of the face of the Lamb before whom they have to stand.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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