Revelation 9:19

For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.

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WEBBE

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads; and with them they harm.

BSB

For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes, having heads with which to inflict harm.

KJV

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

ASV

For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt.

BBE

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails: because their tails are like snakes, and have heads, and with them they give wounds.

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ἡ hē the G3588 γὰρ gar for G1063 ἐξουσία exousia power G1849 τῶν tōn of the G3588 ἵππων ippōn horses G2462 ἐν en in G1722 τῷ tō the G3588 στόματι stomati mouths G4750 αὐτῶν autōn of them G846 ἐστιν estin are G1510 καὶ kai and G2532 ἐν en in G1722 ταῖς tais the G3588 οὐραῖς ourais tails G3769 αὐτῶν autōn of them G846 αἱ hai the G3588 γὰρ gar for G1063 οὐραὶ ourai tails G3769 αὐτῶν autōn of them G846 ὅμοιαι homoiai [are] like G3664 ὄφεσιν ophesin as serpents G3789 ἔχουσαι echousai having G2192 κεφαλὰς kephalas heads G2776 καὶ kai and G2532 ἐν en with G1722 αὐταῖς autais them G846 ἀδικοῦσιν adikousin they injure G91

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 13–21

The sixth angel sounded, and here the power of the Turks seems the subject. Their time is limited. They not only slew in war, but brought a poisonous and ruinous religion. The antichristian generation repented not under these dreadful judgments. From this sixth trumpet learn that God can make one enemy of the church a scourge and a plague to another. The idolatry in the remains of the eastern church and elsewhere, and the sins of professed Christians, render this prophecy and its fulfilment more wonderful. And the attentive reader of Scripture and history, may find his faith and hope strengthened by events, which in other respects fill his heart with anguish and his eyes with tears, while he sees that men who escape these plagues, repent not of their evil works, but go on with idolatries, wickedness, and cruelty, till wrath comes upon them to the utmost.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.