Thematic Bible: Caterpillar


Thematic Bible



If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight, mildew, locust, caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be:

that which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.

And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;

He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number;

Lift up a banner in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare nations against her; call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the bristly caterpillars.

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


And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running of locusts shall they run upon it.

And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;