Thematic Bible: Devastation by
Thematic Bible
Locusts » Devastation by
You will plant many crops in your fields, but harvest little for locusts will destroy your crops.
Verse Concepts
When there is famine in the land or an epidemic or scorching winds or swarms of locusts, or when their enemies attack your people, or when disease or sickness among them destroys the crops,
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Your plunder, O nations, is harvested like young devouring locusts; like a swarm of cockroaches men pounce on it.
Verse Concepts
I may shut the sky so that there is no rain, or command grasshoppers to devour the countryside, or send an epidemic among my people.
Verse Concepts
That which the gnawing locust left the swarming locust ate. That which the swarming locust left the creeping locust ate. That which the creeping locust left other locusts ate. Awake, you drunkards, and weep! Wail you drinkers of wine. The sweet wine is removed from your mouth. A nation has invaded my land. It is strong and very large. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the jaw-teeth of a lioness. read more.
He has laid my vine waste and stripped off the bark of my fig tree. He stripped its branches white and clean and threw it away.
He has laid my vine waste and stripped off the bark of my fig tree. He stripped its branches white and clean and threw it away.
The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. They wore gold crowns on their heads and their faces were like the faces of men. Their hair was like the hair of women. Their teeth were like the teeth of lions. They had breastplates like iron. The sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots with many horses running to battle. read more.
Their tails were like scorpions' tails, for there were stings in their tails. They had power to hurt men five months.
Their tails were like scorpions' tails, for there were stings in their tails. They had power to hurt men five months.