Joel 1:6

Joel describes the locusts as a vast, powerful nation with lion-like teeth. The imagery stresses their irresistible, devouring force.

Cross-references · 9

• Joel 2:25I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
• Rev 9:7–10And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men.
• Prov 30:14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
• Joel 2:2–11a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
• Isa 8:8It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!
• Prov 30:25–27The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;
• Isa 32:13and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
• Ps 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
• Hos 9:3They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

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