Thematic Bible: Caterpillar


Thematic Bible



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

What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten;
And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten;
And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten.

He gave also their crops to the grasshopper
And the product of their labor to the locust.

He spoke, and locusts came,
And young locusts, even without number,

Lift up a signal in the land,
Blow a trumpet among the nations!
Consecrate the nations against her,
Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz;
Appoint a marshal against her,
Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.

“Then I will make up to you for the years
That the swarming locust has eaten,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing locust,
My great army which I sent among you.


Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers;
As locusts rushing about men rush about on it.

He gave also their crops to the grasshopper
And the product of their labor to the locust.