Moffatt(i)
3 And out of the smoke came locusts on the earth; they were granted power like the power wielded by scorpions on earth,
4 but they were told not to harm the grass on earth nor any green thing nor any tree, only such human beings as had not the seal of God upon their foreheads;
5 these they were allowed, not to kill but to torture, for five months — and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a man.
6 In those days men will seek death, but they will not find it: they will long to die, but death flies from them.
7 The appearance of the locusts resembled horses armed for battle; on their heads were sort of crowns like gold; their faces were like human faces,
8 their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' fangs;
9 they had scales like iron coats of mail; the whirring of their wings was like the noise of many chariots rushing to battle;
10 their tails and their stings were like scorpions', and their power of hurting men for five months lay in their tails;