9:10a

They: The pronoun They refers to the locusts. For example:

The locusts (New Century Version)

scorpions: Use the same word or phrase that you used in 9:5.

9:10b

which had the power to injure people for five months: The Greek word that the Berean Standard Bible translates as injure is literally “harm” (as in 9:4a). Here the Greek word is more general than “torture/torment” (9:5b) but similar in meaning. The rest of this clause has a similar meaning to 9:5a–c. Other ways to translate this clause are:

they had the power in their tails to cause people pain for five months
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their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails (English Standard Version)
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they could make people suffer for five months with the poison in their tails

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