Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
tails like unto scorpions—like unto the tails of scorpions.
and there were stings—There is no oldest manuscript for this reading. A, B, Aleph, Syriac, and Coptic read, "and (they have) stings: and in their tails (is) their power (literally, 'authority': authorized power) to hurt."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Revelation 9:10:
Joel 2:4
Revelation 9:15
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