Revelation 9:3-5

Holman Christian Standard Bible

³ Then locusts came out of the smoke on to the earth, and power^[a] was given to them^(A) like the power that scorpions have on the earth. ⁴ They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree, but only people who do not have God’s seal on their foreheads. ⁵ They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it strikes a man.