Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands,

New American Standard Bible

The locusts have no king,
Yet all of them go out in ranks;

King James Version

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

Holman Bible

locusts have no king,
yet all of them march in ranks;

International Standard Version

Locusts have no king, but they all swarm in ranks.

American Standard Version

The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of them by bands;

Amplified


The locusts have no king,
Yet all of them go out in groups;

Bible in Basic English

The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands;

Darby Translation

the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;

Julia Smith Translation

To the locust no king, and it will go forth divided all of them;

King James 2000

The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;

Lexham Expanded Bible

there is no king for the locust, yet it marches in rank;

Modern King James verseion

the locusts have no king, yet they go forth by bands, all of them;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The grasshoppers have not a guide, yet go they forth together by heaps.

NET Bible

locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks;

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

King, is there none, to, the locusts, - yet go forth in swarms, do they all;

Webster

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

A king there is not to the locust, And it goeth out -- each one shouting,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The locusts
ארבּה 
'arbeh 
Usage: 24

have no king
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

יצא 
Yatsa' 
....out, ....forth, bring, come, proceed, go, depart,
Usage: 1068

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Four Things That Are Small - Yet Smart And Strong

26 the conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks, 27 the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands, 28 the lizard takes hold with her hands, yet she is in kings' palaces.



Cross References

Joel 2:25

And I will restore to you the years that the locust, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm has eaten--my great army which I sent among you.

Exodus 10:4-6

Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into thy border.

Exodus 10:13-15

And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all the night, and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

Psalm 105:34

He spoke, and the locust came, and the grasshopper, and that without number,

Joel 1:4

That which the palmer-worm has left the locust has eaten, and that which the locust has left the canker-worm has eaten, and that which the canker-worm has left the caterpillar has eaten.

Joel 1:6-7

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

Joel 2:7-11

They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like men of war, and they march each one on his ways. And they do not break their ranks.

Revelation 9:3-11

And locusts came forth out of the smoke upon the earth, and power was given to them, like the scorpions of the earth have power.

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