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 The torment lasts for five months. Is that a relatively short time? Not from the point of view of a literal locust.  Five months describes the normal life span of one of these insects. Therefore,  it is for as longs as they live that the modern-day locusts keep stinging God's enemies.  Moreover, the torment is so severe  that men seek to die. True, we have not record that any of those who were stung  by the locust actually tried to kill themselves.  But the expression helps us to picture the intensity of the torment-as though by the relentless assault of scorpions. It is like the suffering foreseen by Jeremiah for those unfaithful Israelites who would be scattered by the Babylonian conquerors and for whom death would preferable to life. - JEREMIAH 8:3; see also ECCLESIASTES  4:2, 3.

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