Thematic Bible: Caterpillar


Thematic Bible



When there is famine on the earth,
when there is pestilence,
when there is blight, mildew, locust, or grasshopper,
when their enemy besieges them
in the region of their fortified cities,
when there is any plague or illness,

What the devouring locust has left,
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust has left,
the young locust has eaten;
and what the young locust has left,
the destroying locust has eaten.

He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

He spoke, and locusts came—
young locusts without number.

Raise a signal flag in the land;
blow a ram’s horn among the nations;
set apart the nations against her.
Summon kingdoms against her—
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a marshal against her;
bring up horses like a swarm of locusts.

I will repay you for the years
that the swarming locust ate,
the young locust, the destroying locust,
and the devouring locust—
My great army that I sent against you.


Your spoil will be gathered as locusts are gathered;
people will swarm over it like an infestation of locusts.

He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.


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