Thematic Bible: Devastation by


Thematic Bible



"You shall carry out much seed to the field, but you shall gather little [produce], for the locust shall devour it. Verse ConceptsLocustsPlanting Seeds

If there should be in the land famine or disease, if there should be blight or mildew or locust or caterpillars, if it happens that his enemy lays siege against him in the land of his gates, if any plague or any disease, Verse ConceptsCaterpillarsInsectsLocustsMildewHelp In ShortageNations Attacking Israel

And your spoil is gathered, [as] the gathering of the locust, as a swarm of locusts storming on it. Verse ConceptsPlunderingHarvestCaterpillarsLocusts

When I hold back the heavens so that there is not rain, and when I command the locust to devour the earth, and if I send disease among my people, Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTClosing Up

What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten. And what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten. Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. Because a nation has {invaded} my land, strong {and beyond counting}. Its teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and its fangs [are those] of a lioness. read more.
It has made my vine a desolation, and my fig tree a completely splintered stump. It has stripped them bare and thrown [them] down; their branches have turned white.

And the appearance of the locusts [was] like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads [were something] like crowns similar in appearance to gold, and their faces [were] like men's faces, and they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like [the teeth] of lions, and they had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings [was] like the sound of many {horse-drawn chariots} running into battle. read more.
And they have tails similar in appearance to scorpions, and stings, and their power to injure people [for] five months [is] in their tails.