Revelation 2:22

2:22 Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, ¹  and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, ²  unless they repent of her deeds.

Revelation 9:3

9:3 Then ³  out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power ⁴  like that of the scorpions of the earth.

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¹ tn Grk “onto a bed,” in this context an idiom for severe illness (L&N 23.152).

² tn Or “into great distress.” The suffering here is not specified as physical or emotional, and could involve persecution.

³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

⁴ tn See BDAG 352 s.v. ἐξουσία 2, “potential or resource to command, control, or govern, capability, might, power.”