# torment

## Facts

The term "torment" refers to terrible suffering. To torment someone means to cause someone to suffer, often in a cruel way.

* Sometimes the term "torment" refers to physical pain and suffering. For example, the book of Revelation describes physical torment that worshippers of the "beast" will suffer in the end-times.
* Suffering also may take the form of spiritual and emotional affliction as experienced by Job.
* According to the book of Revelation, people who do not believe in Jesus as their Savior will experience eternal spiritual torment in the lake of fire.
* This term could be translated as, "terrible suffering" or "cause someone to suffer greatly" or "agony." Some translators may add "physical" or "spiritual" to make the meaning clear.