Revelation 9:3-5

Revised Geneva Translation

³ And there came locusts upon the earth, out of the smoke. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

⁴ And they were commanded not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree; but only those men who do not have the seal of God in their foreheads.

⁵ And they were commanded not to kill them; but that they should be tormented for five months, and that their pain should be as the pain that comes from a scorpion when he has stung a man.