4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree, but only people who do not have God’s seal on their foreheads.
5 They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it strikes a man.
6 In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
7 The appearance of the locusts was like horses equipped for battle. Something like gold crowns was on their heads; their faces were like men’s faces;
8 they had hair like women’s hair; their teeth were like lions’ teeth;
9 they had chests like iron breastplates; the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses rushing into battle;
10 and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months.