Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

A Conservative Version

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

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;

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
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 only a feeble people, but they make their houses in the rocks; 27 The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands; 28 You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings' houses.

Cross References

Joel 2:25

I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.

Exodus 10:4-6

For if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will send locusts into your land:

Exodus 10:13-15

And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind.

Psalm 105:34

At his word the locusts came, and young locusts more than might be numbered,

Joel 1:4

What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.

Joel 1:6-7

For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.

Joel 2:7-11

They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.

Revelation 9:3-11

And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions.

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