Thematic Bible: Caterpillar


Thematic Bible



If there chance dearth in the land, pestilence, blasting or withering of corn, or that the fruits be devoured of grasshoppers or caterpillars, or if their enemies besiege them in the land and in their own cities, or whatsoever plague or sickness chance:

Look, what the caterpillar hath left, that hath the grasshopper eaten up; what the grasshopper left, that hath the locust eaten up; and what the locust hath left, that hath the blasting consumed.

How he gave their fruits unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the grasshopper;

He spake the word, and the grasshoppers came, and caterpillars innumerable,

Set up a token in the land, blow the trumpets among the Heathen, provoke the nations against her, call the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz against her: set the prince against her, bring as great a sort of horses against her, as if they were grasshoppers.

And I will restore you again, with my great power which I have sent unto you, the years which the locusts and caterpillars have devoured.


and that their spoil may be gathered, as the grasshoppers are commonly gathered together into the pit.

How he gave their fruits unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the grasshopper;