the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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THE MESSAGE
Revelation 9:6
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In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
And in those daies shal men seeke death, and shall not finde it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will flee from them!
During those days people will look for a way to die, but they will not find it. They will want to die, but death will run away from them.
And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.
In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
In those days people will want to die, but they will not be able to. They will hope for death, but it will escape from them.
In those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall in no way find it; and shall desire to die, and death flees from them.
During those days people will look for a way to die, but they will not find it. They will want to die, but death will hide from them.
Therefore in those dayes shall men seeke death, and shall not finde it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flie from them.
So in those days men shall seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
During those five months they will seek death, but will not find it; they will want to die, but death will flee from them.
And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.
And in those days men will seek death, and they will not find it. And they will long to die, yet death will flee from them.
And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die [to escape the pain], but [will discover that] death evades them.
And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.
And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.
In those days men will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
In those days people will look for death and never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them.Job 1:3:21; Isaiah 2:19; Jeremiah 8:3; Revelation 6:16;">[xr]
And in those days men shall seek death, and shall not find; and shall desire to die, and death will flee from them.
And in those days, men will desire death, and will not find it; and they will long to die, and death will fly from them.
And in those dayes shall men seke death, and shall not fynde it, and shall desire to dye, and death shall flee from them.
And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.
In those days men will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
And in those days the men shall seek death, but not find it; and shall desire to die, but death will flee from them.
And at that time people will seek death, but will by no possibility find it, and will long to die, but death evades them.
And in tho daies men schulen seke deth, and thei schulen not fynde it; and thei schulen desire to die, and deth schal fle fro hem.
And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no way find it; and they shall desire to die, and death flees from them.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
In those days people will seek death, but will not be able to find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them!
Men will look for ways to die during those days, but they will not find any way. They will want to die, but death will be kept from them.
And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
And, in those days, shall men seek death, and in nowise shall find it, and shall covet to die, and death fleeth from them.
And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them.
And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will fly from them.
And in those dayes shall men seke deeth and shall not fynde it and shall desyre to dye and deeth shall flye fro the.
and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.
And in those dayes shal me seke deeth, and shal not fynde it: and shal desyre to dye, and death shal flye from them.
in those days shall men seek for death, but shall not find it; they will desire to die, and death will shun them.
During those five months, people will look for death to ease the pain, but be unable to find it.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shall men: Revelation 6:16, 2 Samuel 1:9, Job 3:20-22, Job 7:15, Job 7:16, Isaiah 2:19, Jeremiah 8:3, Hosea 10:8, John 4:8, John 4:9, Luke 23:30
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:67 - General Judges 8:21 - Rise thou Job 3:21 - long Job 6:9 - that it would Psalms 59:11 - Slay Isaiah 15:4 - his Jonah 4:9 - even Zechariah 14:12 - Their flesh
Cross-References
This is the family tree of the human race: When God created the human race, he made it godlike, with a nature akin to God. He created both male and female and blessed them, the whole human race.
"But your own lifeblood I will avenge; I will avenge it against both animals and other humans.
Whoever sheds human blood, by humans let his blood be shed, Because God made humans in his image reflecting God's very nature. You're here to bear fruit, reproduce, lavish life on the Earth, live bountifully!"
God continued, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and everything living around you and everyone living after you. I'm putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. From now on, when I form a cloud over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll remember my covenant between me and you and everything living, that never again will floodwaters destroy all life. When the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll see it and remember the eternal covenant between God and everything living, every last living creature on Earth."
Noah lived another 350 years following the flood. He lived a total of 950 years. And he died.
"Anyone who hits and kills a fellow human must be put to death. Anyone who kills someone's animal must make it good—a life for a life. Anyone who injures his neighbor will get back the same as he gave: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. What he did to hurt that person will be done to him. Anyone who hits and kills an animal must make it good, but whoever hits and kills a fellow human will be put to death. And no double standards: the same rule goes for foreigners and natives. I am God , your God."
"Don't pollute the land in which you live. Murder pollutes the land. The land can't be cleaned up of the blood of murder except through the blood of the murderer.
You're the One I've violated, and you've seen it all, seen the full extent of my evil. You have all the facts before you; whatever you decide about me is fair. I've been out of step with you for a long time, in the wrong since before I was born. What you're after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.
Jesus said, "Put your sword back where it belongs. All who use swords are destroyed by swords. Don't you realize that I am able right now to call to my Father, and twelve companies—more, if I want them—of fighting angels would be here, battle-ready? But if I did that, how would the Scriptures come true that say this is the way it has to be?"
To Be a Responsible Citizen Be a good citizen. All governments are under God. Insofar as there is peace and order, it's God's order. So live responsibly as a citizen. If you're irresponsible to the state, then you're irresponsible with God, and God will hold you responsible. Duly constituted authorities are only a threat if you're trying to get by with something. Decent citizens should have nothing to fear. Do you want to be on good terms with the government? Be a responsible citizen and you'll get on just fine, the government working to your advantage. But if you're breaking the rules right and left, watch out. The police aren't there just to be admired in their uniforms. God also has an interest in keeping order, and he uses them to do it. That's why you must live responsibly—not just to avoid punishment but also because it's the right way to live. That's also why you pay taxes—so that an orderly way of life can be maintained. Fulfill your obligations as a citizen. Pay your taxes, pay your bills, respect your leaders. Don't run up debts, except for the huge debt of love you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along. The law code—don't sleep with another person's spouse, don't take someone's life, don't take what isn't yours, don't always be wanting what you don't have, and any other "don't" you can think of—finally adds up to this: Love other people as well as you do yourself. You can't go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love. But make sure that you don't get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day-by-day obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off, oblivious to God. The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing! God is putting the finishing touches on the salvation work he began when we first believed. We can't afford to waste a minute, must not squander these precious daylight hours in frivolity and indulgence, in sleeping around and dissipation, in bickering and grabbing everything in sight. Get out of bed and get dressed! Don't loiter and linger, waiting until the very last minute. Dress yourselves in Christ, and be up and about!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And in those days men shall seek death,.... Or desire to die, as Job did:
and shall not find it; or shall not die:
and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them; death will be preferred to a miserable life; it will be chosen rather than life, Jeremiah 8:3. The ravages of the Saracens, their incursions, and the invasions by them, struck such terror into the inhabitants of divers parts of the empire, that they made death more eligible to them than life.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And in those days shall men seek death ... - See the notes on Revelation 9:5. It is very easy to conceive of such a state of things as is here described, and, indeed, this has not been very uncommon in the world. It is a state where the distress is so great that people would consider death a relief, and where they anxiously look to the time when they may be released from their sufferings by death. In the case before us it is not intimated that they would lay violent hands on themselves, or that they would take any positive measures to end their sufferings; and this, perhaps, may be a circumstance of some importance to show that the persons referred to were servants of God. When it is said that âthey would seek death,â it can only be meant that they would look out for it - or desire it - as the end of their sorrows. This is descriptive, as we shall see, of a particular period of the world; but the language is beautifully applicable to what occurs in all ages and in all lands.
There is always a great number of sufferers who are looking forward to death as a relief. In cells and dungeons; on beds of pain and languishing; in scenes of poverty and want; in blighted hopes and disappointed affections, how many are there who would be glad to die, and who have no hope of an end of suffering but in the grave! A few, by the pistol, by the halter, by poison, or by drowning, seek thus to end their woes. A large part look forward to death as a release, when, if the reality were known, death would furnish no such relief, for there are deeper and longer woes beyond the grave than there are this side of it. Compare the notes on Job 3:20-22. But to a portion death will be a relief. It will be an end of sufferings. They will find peace in the grave, and are assured they shall suffer no more. Such bear their trials with patience, for the end of all sorrow to them is near, and death will come to release their spirits from the suffering clay, and to bear them in triumph to a world where a pang shall never be felt, and a tear never shed.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Revelation 9:6. In those days shall men seek death — So distressing shall be their sufferings and torment that they shall long for death in any form, to be rescued from the evils of life. There is a sentiment much like this in Maximianus, Eleg. i., ver. 111, commonly attributed to Cornelius Gallus:-
Nunc quia longa mihi gravis est et inutilis aetas,
Vivere cum nequeam, sit mihi posse mori?
O quam dura premit miseros conditio vitae!
Nec mors humano subjacet arbitrio.
Dulce mori miseris; sed mors optata recedit:
At cum tristis erit, praecipitata venit.
"Seeing that long life is both useless and burdensome
When we can no longer live comfortably, shall we be
permitted to die?
O how hard is the condition on which we hold life!
For death is not subjected to the will of man.
To die is sweet to the wretched; but wished-for death
flees away.
Yet when it is not desired, it comes with the hastiest
strides."
Job expresses the same sentiment, in the most plaintive manner: -
Why is light given to the miserable,
And life to the bitter of soul?
Who wait for death, but it is not;
And dig for it more than hid treasures.
They rejoice for it, and are glad,
And exult when they find the grave.
Job 3:20-22.
