Revelation 9:3 Cross References - Rotherham

³ And, out of the smoke, came forth, locusts, upon the earth; and there was given unto them licence, as the scorpions of the earth have licence.

⁴ But, if, refusing, thou art to let my people go, behold me bringing in, tomorrow, a locust, within thy bounds; ⁵ and it shall cover the eye of the land, so that one shall not be able to see the land,––and it shall eat the residue that hath escaped, that is left you from the hail, and shall eat up all the trees that sprout for you, out of the field; ⁶ and they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, such as thy fathers and thy fathers’ fathers have never seen, from the day they came to be on the ground, until this day. And he turned away, and came out from the presence of Pharaoh. ⁷ Then said the servants of Pharaoh unto him, How long shall this [man] become to us a snare? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh their God. Not yet, knowest thou, that Egypt is, ruined? ⁸ So Moses and Aaron were brought back unto pharaoh, and he said unto them––Go, serve Yahweh your God,––who, are they that are going? ⁹ And Moses said, With our young and with our old, will we go,––with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds, will we go,––for, the festival of Yahweh, is ours. ¹⁰ Then he said unto them: Let Yahweh, so, be with you, when I let go you and your little ones! Look out, for, harm, is straight before your faces. ¹¹ Not so! Go, I pray you, ye grown men, and serve Yahweh, for, that, is what, ye, were seeking. And they were driven out from the presence of Pharaoh.
¹² Then said Yahweh unto Moses––Stretch forth thy hand over the land of Egypt, for the locust, that it may come up over the land of Egypt,––and may eat up every herb of the land, all that the hail hath left. ¹³ And Moses stretched forth his staff over the land of Egypt, and, Yahweh, caused an east wind to drive through the land, all that day, and all the night,––when, the morning, had come, the east wind, had brought the locust. ¹⁴ And the locust came up over all the land of Egypt, and settled in all the bounds of Egypt,––very grievous, before it, had not been such a locust, as that, neither, after it, should be one like it. ¹⁵ So it covered the eye of all the land, and the land was darkened, and it did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which the hail had left remaining,––so that there was not left remaining any green sprout in the trees, or in the herb of the field, in all the land of Egypt.

¹⁵ who caused thee to journey through the great and terrible desert, of fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty wastes, where was no water,––who brought forth for thee water out of the flinty rock;

¹² Now, the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east, were lying along in the vale, like locusts for multitude,––their camels also, were without number, as the sand that is by the sea side, for multitude.

¹¹ Now, therefore, whereas, my father, laid upon you a heavy yoke, I, will add to your yoke,––My father, did chastise you with whips, but, I, will chastise you with scorpions.

⁴ Then shall your spoil, be gathered, as the gathering of the caterpillar,––As the swift running of locusts, is he about to run upon them.

⁶ But, thou, son of man, Be not afraid of them, Nor, of their words, be afraid, Though, thorns and thistles, are about thee, And, amongst prickly plants, thou dost dwell, Of their words, be not afraid, nor, At their faces, be thou dismayed, For, a perverse house, they are!

⁴ That which was left by the creeping locust, hath the swarming locust eaten, and, that which was left by the swarming locust, hath the grass locust eaten; and, that which was left by the grass locust, hath the corn locust eaten.

²⁵ Then will I make good to you the years which were eaten by the swarming locust, the grass locust, and the corn locust and the creeping locust,––even my great army, which I sent among you.

¹⁵ There, shall a fire devour thee, the sword, shall cut thee off, it shall devour thee like the grass locust, make thyself numerous like the grass locust, make thyself numerous as the swarming locust:

¹⁷ Thy mercenary crowds, are like the swarming locust, and, thy mixed multitudes, like locusts––swarms of locusts,––which settle in the hedges on a cold day, the sun, hath broken forth, and they are in flight, and unknown is the place where they are!

¹⁹ Lo! I have given you the authority––to be treading upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and, nothing, unto you, shall in anywise do harm;

⁵ And it was given unto them, that they should not slay them, but that they should be tormented five months; and, the torture of them, was as of a scorpion’s torture, whensoever it smiteth a man.

¹⁰ and they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings, and, in their tails, is their licence to injure men five months. ¹¹ They have over them, as king, the messenger of the abyss, whose name, in Hebrew, is Abaddon["=Destroyer"], and, in the Greek, he hath for name, Destroyer.