6 Bible Verses about Grasshoppers

Most Relevant Verses

Numbers 13:33

There we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

Isaiah 40:22


It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
[It is He] who stretches out the heavens like a veil
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Leviticus 11:22

Of these you may eat: the whole species of migratory locust, of bald locust, of cricket, and of grasshopper.

Judges 6:5

For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, and they would come in as numerous as locusts; both they and their camels were innumerable. So they came into the land to devastate it.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

Furthermore, they are afraid of a high place and of dangers on the road; the almond tree (hair) blossoms [white], and the grasshopper (a little thing) is a burden, and the caperberry (desire, appetite) fails. For man goes to his eternal home and the mourners go about the streets and market places.

Nahum 3:17


Your guardsmen are like the swarming locusts.
Your marshals are like the hordes of grasshoppers
Settling in the stone walls on a cold day.
When the sun rises, they fly away,
And no one knows the place where they are.

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Agriculture » Foes of » Grasshoppers

Leviticus 11:22

Of these you may eat: the whole species of migratory locust, of bald locust, of cricket, and of grasshopper.

Numbers 13:33

There we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

Judges 6:5

For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, and they would come in as numerous as locusts; both they and their camels were innumerable. So they came into the land to devastate it.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

Furthermore, they are afraid of a high place and of dangers on the road; the almond tree (hair) blossoms [white], and the grasshopper (a little thing) is a burden, and the caperberry (desire, appetite) fails. For man goes to his eternal home and the mourners go about the streets and market places.

Isaiah 40:22


It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
[It is He] who stretches out the heavens like a veil
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

More verses: Nahum 3:17

Armies » Compared to » Grasshoppers

Judges 6:3-5

For whenever Israel had sown their seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them. They would encamp against them and destroy the crops as far as Gaza and leave no nourishment for Israel, and no ox or sheep or donkey. For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came like locusts for multitude; both they and their camels could not be counted. So they wasted the land as they entered it.

Judges 7:12

Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying [camped] in the valley, as countless as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.

Insects » Grasshoppers » Hornets

Joshua 24:12

I sent the hornet [that is, the terror of you] before you, which drove the two kings of the Amorites out before you; but it was not by your sword or by your bow.

Exodus 23:28

I will send hornets ahead of you which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.

Deuteronomy 7:20

Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet (His terror) against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish.

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