Revelation 9:7
Good News Translation
The locusts looked like horses ready for battle; on their heads they had what seemed to be crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces.

New Revised Standard Version
In appearance the locusts were like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,

Contemporary English Version
These locusts looked like horses ready for battle. On their heads they wore something like gold crowns, and they had human faces.

New American Bible
The appearance of the locusts was like that of horses ready for battle. On their heads they wore what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle. And on their heads were, as it were, crowns like gold: and their faces were as the faces of men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle. And on their heads were, as it were, crowns like gold: and their faces were as the faces of men.

the shapes.

Joel 2:4,5 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and they shall run like horsemen. . . .

Nahum 3:17 Thy guards are like the locusts: and thy little ones like the locusts of locusts which swarm on the hedges in the day of cold: the sun arose, and they flew away, and their place was not known where they were.

their faces.

Daniel 7:4,8 The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was given to her. . . .

Context
The Fifth Trumpet
6And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them. 7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle. And on their heads were, as it were, crowns like gold: and their faces were as the faces of men. 8And they had hair as the hair of women: and their teeth were as lions.…
Cross References
Joel 2:4
The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and they shall run like horsemen.

Nahum 3:17
Thy guards are like the locusts: and thy little ones like the locusts of locusts which swarm on the hedges in the day of cold: the sun arose, and they flew away, and their place was not known where they were.

Revelation 6:2
And I saw: and behold a white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow, and there was a crown given him, and he went forth conquering that he might conquer.

Revelation 9:3
And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Revelation 9:6
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