Revelation 9:4-6

Contemporary English Version

^4 (A) The locusts were told not to harm the grass on the earth or any plant or any tree. They were to punish only those people who did not have God's mark on their foreheads. ⁵ The locusts were allowed to make them suffer for five months, but not to kill them. The suffering they caused was like the sting of a scorpion. ^6 (B) In those days people will want to die, but they will not be able to. They will hope for death, but it will escape from them.