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Revelation 11:9
ESV For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
NIV For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial.
NASB Those from the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.
CSB And some of the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will view their bodies for three and a half days and not permit their bodies to be put into a tomb.
NLT And for three and a half days, all peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will stare at their bodies. No one will be allowed to bury them.
KJV And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

What does Revelation 11:9 mean?

At times in the past, people doubted some of the incidents depicted in Revelation, claiming that there was no way for the "entire world" to literally see something as it happened. Today, through the media of television and hand-held devices, people can follow events around the globe in real time. It is not hard to believe, therefore, that for three and a half days, at least some people from virtually all tribes and languages and nations will gaze at the dead bodies of the two witnesses.

Their morbid delight at viewing the dead bodies is matched only by their wicked refusal to grant the bodies of the two witnesses burial in a tomb. The people demonstrate by their despicable delight in the death of the two witnesses that "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick" (Jeremiah 17:9). When Jesus hung on the cross and would soon die, "the rulers scoffed at him, saying, 'He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One'" (Luke 23:35). The soldiers also mocked Him. However, both Jesus' adversaries and the two witnesses' adversaries would soon learn that evil cannot triumph over good.
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