Revelation 9:3-5

Contemporary English Version

^3 (A) Locusts^[a] came out of the smoke and covered the earth. They were given the same power that scorpions have.

^4 (B) 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.