Wahyu 9:10

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dan ekor mereka sama seperti kalajengking dan ada sengatnya, dan di dalam ekor mereka itu terdapat kuasa mereka untuk menyakiti manusia, lima bulan lamanya.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dan ekor mereka sama seperti kalajengking dan ada sengatnya, dan di dalam ekor mereka itu terdapat kuasa mereka untuk menyakiti manusia, lima bulan lamanya.

Contextual Overview

¹ And the fift angell blewe, and I sawe a starre fall from heauen vnto ye earth: and to hym was geuen the key of the bottomlesse pit. ² And he opened the bottomlesse pit, and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great fornace, and the sunne and the ayre were darkened by the reason of the smoke of the pit. ³ And there came out of the smoke locustes vpon the earth, and vnto them was geuen power, as the scorpions of the earth haue power. ⁴ And it was commaunded them that they shoulde not hurt the grasse of the earth, neither any greene thing, neither any tree: but only those men which haue not the seale of God in their forheades. ⁵ And to them was commaunded that they should not kyll them, but that they shoulde be vexed fiue monethes, and their paine was as the payne that commeth of a scorpion when he hath stong a man. ⁶ And in those dayes shall men seke death, and shall not fynde it, and shall desire to dye, and death shall flee from them. ⁷ And the similitude of the locustes was like vnto horses prepared vnto battayle, and on their heades were as it were crownes lyke vnto golde, and their faces were as it had ben the faces of men. ⁸ And they had heere as the heere of women, & their teeth were as ye teeth of Lions. ⁹ And they had habbergions as it were habbergions of iron, and the sounde of their wynges was as ye sounde of charrettes when many horses runne together to batayle. ¹⁰ And they had tayles lyke vnto scorpions, and there were stynges in their tayles: and their power was to hurt men fiue monethes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

tails: Revelation 9:3, Revelation 9:5

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 10:11 - scorpions Luke 11:12 - a scorpion 1 Corinthians 15:55 - sting Revelation 9:15 - an hour Revelation 9:19 - in their tails Revelation 12:4 - his tail

Cross-References

Genesis 8:1
And God remebred Noah and euery beast, and all the cattell that was with hym in the arke: and God made a wynde to passe vpon the earth, and the waters ceassed.

Genesis 9:1
And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth.

Genesis 9:5
And surely your blood of your lyues wyl I require: at the hande of euery beast wyll I require it, and at the hand of man, at the hande of mans brother wyll I require the life of man.

Genesis 9:6
Who so sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.

Genesis 9:15
And I wyll thinke vpon my couenaunt whiche is betweene me and you, and euery liuing creature in all fleshe: and it shall no more come to passe, that waters make a fludde to destroy all fleshe.

Genesis 9:16
And the bowe shalbe in the cloude, and I wyll loke vpon it, that I may thinke vpon the euerlasting couenaunt, betweene god and euery liuing creature in all fleshe that is vpon the earth.

Psalms 145:9
God is good vnto euery man: and his mercie is ouer all his workes.

Jonah 4:11
And shall not I spare Niniue that great citie, in the which are more then sixscore thousand persons that knowe not their right hand and their left, and also much cattaile?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they had tails like unto scorpions,.... Locusts are said to have the tail of a serpent, and of the vipers of the earth u;

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:-. 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;

Isaiah 9:15- :.

u Scriptores Arab.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they had tails like unto scorpions - The fancy of an Arab now often discerns a resemblance between the tail of the locust and the scorpion. See the remark of Niebuhr, quoted in the notes on Revelation 9:7.

And there were stings in their tails - Like the stings of scorpions. See the notes on Revelation 9:3. This made the locusts which appeared to John the more remarkable, for though the fancy may imagine a resemblance between the tail of a locust and a scorpion, yet the locusts have properly no sting. The only thing which they have resembling a sting is a hard bony subsubstance like a needle, with which the female punctures the bark and wood of trees in order to deposit her eggs. It has, however, no adaptation, like a sting, for conveying poison into a wound. These, however, appeared to be armed with stings properly so called.

And their power was to hurt men - Not primarily to kill people, but to inflict on them various kinds of tortures. See the notes on Revelation 9:5. The word used here - ἀδικῆσαι adikēsai, rendered “to hurt” - is different from the word in Revelation 9:5 - βασανισθῶσιν basanisthōsin, rendered “should be tormented.” This word properly means “to do wrong, to do unjustly, to injure, to hurt”; and the two words would seem to convey the idea that they would produce distress by doing wrong to others, or by deeding unjustly with them. It does not appear that the wrong would be by inflicting bodily torments, but would be characterized by that injustice toward others which produces distress and anguish.

Five months - See the notes on Revelation 9:5; (also Editor’s Preface).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 9:10. They had tails like unto scorpions — This may refer to the consequences of their victories. They infected the conquered with their pernicious doctrines.

Their power was to hurt men five months.] The locusts make their principal ravages during the five summer months. But probably these may be prophetic months, as above, in Revelation 9:5-150 years.