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)
Footnotes
- 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.
Footnotes
- 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)
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