Revelation 9:9
Good News Translation
Their chests were covered with what looked like iron breastplates, and the sound made by their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle.

New Revised Standard Version
they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.

Contemporary English Version
On their chests they wore armor made of iron. Their wings roared like an army of horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle.

New American Bible
and they had chests like iron breastplates. The sound of their wings was like the sound of many horse-drawn chariots racing into battle.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron: and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron: and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle.

they had.

Revelation 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision. And they that sat on them had breastplates of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone. And the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and from their mouths proceeded fire and smoke and brimstone.

Job 40:18 His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of iron.

Job 41:23-30 The members of his flesh cleave one to another: he shall send lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place. . . .

Joel 2:8 No one shall press upon his brother: they shall walk every one in his path: yea, and they shall fall through the windows, and shall take no harm.

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Job 39:25 When he heareth the trumpet he saith: Ha, ha: he smelleth the battle afar off, the encouraging of the captains, and the shouting of the army.

Isaiah 9:5 For every violent taking of spoils, with tumult, and garment mingled with blood, shall be burnt, and be fuel for the fire.

Joel 2:5-7 They shall leap like the noise of chariots upon the tops of mountains, like the noise of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, as a strong people prepared to battle. . . .

Nahum 2:4,5 They are in confusion in the ways, the chariots jostle one against another in the streets: their looks are like torches, like lightning running to and fro. . . .

Context
The Fifth Trumpet
8And they had hair as the hair of women: and their teeth were as lions. 9And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron: and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle. 10And they had tails like to scorpions: and there were stings in their tails. And their power was to hurt men, five months. And they had over them…
Cross References
Jeremiah 47:3
At the noise of the marching of arms, and of his soldiers, at the rushing of his chariots, and the multitude of his wheels. The fathers have not looked back to the children, for feebleness of hands,

Joel 2:5
They shall leap like the noise of chariots upon the tops of mountains, like the noise of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, as a strong people prepared to battle.

Revelation 9:17
And thus I saw the horses in the vision. And they that sat on them had breastplates of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone. And the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and from their mouths proceeded fire and smoke and brimstone.

Revelation 9:8
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