Then from the smoke came (A)locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth.

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What (A)the cutting locust left,
    (B)the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
    (C)the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
    (D)the destroying locust has eaten.

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They were allowed to torment them (A)for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.

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25 I will restore[a] to you the years
    that (A)the swarming locust has eaten,
(B)the hopper, (C)the destroyer, and (D)the cutter,
    (E)my great army, which I sent among you.

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  1. Joel 2:25 Or pay back

10 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people (A)for five months is in their tails. 11 They have (B)as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is (C)Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.[a]

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  1. Revelation 9:11 Abaddon means destruction; Apollyon means destroyer

15 There will the fire devour you;
    the sword will cut you off.
    It will (A)devour you (B)like the locust.
Multiply yourselves (C)like the locust;
    multiply (D)like the grasshopper!

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And you, son of man, (A)be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, (B)though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on (C)scorpions.[a] Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

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  1. Ezekiel 2:6 Or on scorpion plants

and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers;
    (A)as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.

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11 And now, whereas (A)my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

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12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and (A)all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, (B)as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.

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15 who (A)led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, (B)with its fiery serpents and scorpions (C)and thirsty ground where there was no water, (D)who brought you water out of the flinty rock,

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For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring (A)locusts into your country, and they shall cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land. And they shall (B)eat what is left to you after the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours that grows in the field, and they shall fill (C)your houses and the houses of all your servants and of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.’” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Then Pharaoh's servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?” So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, (D)“Go, serve the Lord your God. But which ones are to go?” Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for (E)we must hold a feast to the Lord.” 10 But he said to them, “The Lord be with you, if ever I let you and your (F)little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind.[a] 11 No! Go, the men among you, and serve the Lord, for that is what you are asking.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

12 Then the Lord said to Moses, (G)“Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and (H)eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left.” 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 it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts. 14 (I)The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, (J)such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever will be again. 15 They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and (K)they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

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  1. Exodus 10:10 Hebrew before your face

19 Behold, I have given you authority (A)to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of (B)the enemy, and (C)nothing shall hurt you.

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17 Your (A)princes are (B)like grasshoppers,
    (C)your scribes[a] like clouds of locusts
settling on the fences
    in a day of cold—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
    no one knows where they are.

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  1. Nahum 3:17 Or marshals

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