Joel 1:4
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4 What the cutting locust left,
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust left,
the hopping locust has eaten;
and what the hopping locust left,
the destroying locust has eaten.(A)
Joel 2:25
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25 I will repay you for the years
that the swarming locust has eaten,
the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,
my great army that I sent against you.(A)
Amos 4:9
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9 I struck you with blight and mildew;
I laid waste[a] your gardens and your vineyards;
the locust devoured your fig trees and your olive trees;
yet you did not return to me,
says the Lord.(A)
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- 4.9 Cn: Heb the multitude of
Amos 7:1
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Locusts, Fire, and a Plumb Line
7 This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings).(A)
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Isaiah 33:4
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4 Spoil was gathered as the caterpillar gathers;
as locusts leap, they leaped[a] upon it.
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- 33.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 78:46
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46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
Exodus 10:4
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4 For if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.(A)
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Jeremiah 51:14
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14 The Lord of hosts has sworn by himself:
Surely I will fill you with troops like a swarm of locusts,
and they shall raise a shout of victory over you.(A)
Psalm 105:34
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34 He spoke, and the locusts came,
and young locusts without number;(A)
2 Chronicles 7:13
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13 When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain or command the locust to devour the land or send pestilence among my people,(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:38
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38 “You shall carry much seed into the field but shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.(A)
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Revelation 9:3-7
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3 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given authority like the authority of scorpions of the earth.(A) 4 They were told not to damage the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.(B) 5 They were allowed to torment them for five months but not to kill them, and the agony suffered was like that caused by a scorpion when it stings someone.(C) 6 And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.(D)
7 In appearance the locusts were like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,(E)
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Jeremiah 51:27
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27 Raise a standard in the land;
blow the trumpet among the nations;
prepare the nations for war against her;
summon against her the kingdoms,
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;
appoint a marshal against her;
bring up horses like bristling locusts.(A)
1 Kings 8:37
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37 “If there is famine in the land, if there is plague, blight, mildew, locust, or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in any[a] of their cities; whatever suffering, whatever sickness there is;(A)
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- 8.37 Gk Syr: Heb in the land
Deuteronomy 28:42
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42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground the cicada shall take over.(A)
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Exodus 10:12-15
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12 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may come upon it and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left.”(A) 13 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When morning came, the east wind had brought the locusts. 14 The locusts came upon all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before nor ever shall be again.(B) 15 They covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was black, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green was left on the trees or on the plants in the fields, in all the land of Egypt.(C)
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Nahum 3:15-17
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15 There the fire will devour you;
the sword will cut you off.
It will devour you like the locust.
Multiply yourselves like the locust;
multiply like the grasshopper!(A)
16 You increased your merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
The locust sheds its skin and flies away.
17 Your guards are like grasshoppers,
your scribes like swarms[a] of locusts
settling on the fences
on a cold day—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
no one knows where they have gone.
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- 3.17 Meaning of Heb uncertain
2 Chronicles 6:28
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28 “If there is famine in the land, if there is plague, blight, mildew, locust, or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in any of the settlements of the lands; whatever suffering, whatever sickness there is;(A)
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