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They were not permitted to kill them, but to torment (distress, vex) them for five months; and the pain caused them was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a person.

And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will yearn to die, but death evades and flees from them.(A)

The locusts resembled horses equipped for battle. On their heads was something like golden crowns. Their faces resembled the faces of people.(B)

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