LOCUST

Passages on this topic · 47

• Exodus 10:1

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them,

• Exodus 10:2

  and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”

• Exodus 10:3

  Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

• Exodus 10:4

  Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,

• Exodus 10:5

  and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.

• Exodus 10:6

  Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’” He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

• Exodus 10:7

  Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

• Exodus 10:8

  Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?”

• Exodus 10:9

  Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh.”

• Exodus 10:10

  He said to them, “Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.

• Exodus 10:11

  Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” They were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

• Exodus 10:12

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.”

• Exodus 10:13

  Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

• Exodus 10:14

  The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, nor will there ever be again.

• Exodus 10:15

  For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 10:16

  Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.

• Exodus 10:17

  Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”

• Exodus 10:18

  He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.

• Exodus 10:19

  Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

• Leviticus 11:22

  Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.

• Deuteronomy 28:38

  You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in; for the locust will consume it.

• Judges 6:5

  For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.

• Judges 7:12

  The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.

• 1 Kings 8:37

  “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

• 2 Chronicles 7:13

  “If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

• Job 39:20

  Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

• Psalms 105:34

  He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,

• Psalms 105:35

  ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground.

• Proverbs 30:27

  The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.

• Isaiah 33:4

  Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

• Jeremiah 46:23

  They shall cut down her forest,” says Yahweh, “though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

• Joel 1:4

  What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

• Joel 1:5

  Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

• Joel 1:6

  For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

• Joel 1:7

  He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

• Joel 2:2

  A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

• Joel 2:10

  The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

• Matthew 3:4

  Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

• Mark 1:6

  John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.

• Revelation 9:3

  Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

• Revelation 9:4

  They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.

• Revelation 9:5

  They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.

• Revelation 9:6

  In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

• Revelation 9:7

  The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces.

• Revelation 9:8

  They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

• Revelation 9:9

  They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.

• Revelation 9:10

  They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.