Wahyu 9:10

9:10 They have ¹  tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability ²  to injure people for five months is in their tails.

Wahyu 15:6

15:6 and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, dressed in clean bright linen, wearing wide golden belts ³  around their chests.

Wahyu 16:6

16:6 because they poured out the blood of your saints and prophets,

so ⁴  you have given them blood to drink. They got what they deserved!” ⁵ 

[9:10]  ¹ tn In the Greek text there is a shift to the present tense here; the previous verbs translated “had” are imperfects.

[9:10]  ² tn See BDAG 352 s.v. ἐξουσία 2, “potential or resource to command, control, or govern, capability, might, power.”

[15:6]  ³ tn Or “wide golden sashes,” but these would not be diagonal, as some modern sashes are, but horizontal. The Greek term can refer to a wide band of cloth or leather worn on the outside of one’s clothing (L&N 6.178).

[16:6]  ⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate that this judgment is the result of what these wicked people did to the saints and prophets.

[16:6]  ⁵ tn Grk “They are worthy”; i.e., of this kind of punishment. By extension, “they got what they deserve.”