Revelation 9:4-10 They were told not to injure the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only the people who did not have the mark of God's seal on their foreheads.

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ They were told not to injure the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only the people who did not have the mark of God's seal on their foreheads. ⁵ They were not permitted to kill them, but only to torture them for five months, and the torture they inflicted was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a man. ⁶ In those days people will look for death but will not find it, they will long to die but death will flee from them. ⁷ The locusts look like horses armed for battle; on their heads were what appeared to be crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces; ⁸ they had hair that looked like women's hair; their teeth were like lions' teeth; ⁹ they had breastplates that seemed to be made of steel; the noise of their wings was like the noise of vast numbers of chariots and horses rushing into battle; ¹⁰ they had tails like scorpions with stings in them, so in their tails their power lay to injure men for five months.