24 Bible Verses about Locusts

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Joel 2:4-5

His appearance as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen so shall they run. As the voice of chariots upon the heads of the mountains they shall leap, as the voice of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, as a strong people set in order for battle.

Leviticus 11:22

These from them ye shall eat; the locust according to its kind, the winged locust according to its kind, and the locust without wings according to its kind, and the leaping locust according to its kind.

Matthew 3:4

And this John had his garment from camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Mark 1:6

And John was dressed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and eating locusts and wild honey;

Judges 7:12

And Midain and Amalek, and all the sons of the east, encamping in the valley, as the locust for multiude; and to their camels no number, as the sand which is upon the lip of the sea for multitude.

Isaiah 33:4

And your spoil was gathered the gathering of the locust: as the running about of locusts he ran to and fro upon it

Judges 6:5

For they and their cattle will come up, and their tents will come, as an abundance of locusts for multitude; and to them and to their camels no number: and they will come into the land to destroy it

Jeremiah 46:23

They cut down her forest, says Jehovah, for it shall not be searched out, for they were many above the locust, and no number to them.

Jeremiah 51:14

Jehovah of armies sware by his soul: That if I filled thee with men as with locusts, and they struck up a shout against thee.

Nahum 3:15-17

There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall devour thee as the feeder: make thee numerous as the feeder, make thee numerous as the locust Thou didst multiply thy traffics above the stars of the heavens: the feeder spread out and it will fly away. Thy devoted ones as the locust, and thy satraps as the locust of locusts encamping in the walls in a cold day; the sun arose and they fled away, and where his place he knew not

Revelation 9:3

And out of the smoke came forth locusts into the earth: and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Amos 7:1

Thus the Lord Jehovah caused me to see; and behold, he will form locusts in the beginning of the coming up of the latter grass; and behold, the latter grass after the moorings of the king.

Joel 2:25

And I requited to you the years which the common locust ate, the feeder, and the devourer, and the creeping locust, my great army which I sent among you.

Proverbs 30:27

To the locust no king, and it will go forth divided all of them;

Deuteronomy 28:38

Thou shalt bring out much seed to thy field, and shalt gather little, for the locust shall devour it

Amos 4:9

I struck you with blasting and with yellowness: the multitudes of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olives the creeping locust shall eat: and ye turned not back even to me, says Jehovah.

Exodus 10:4

For if thou refusest to send forth my people, behold me bringing to-morrow the locust into thy bounds.

1 Kings 8:37

If famine shall be in the land, if there shall be death, blasting, yellowness, the locust devouring; if his enemy shall press upon him in the land of his gates, every blow, every sickness;

2 Chronicles 6:28

If famine shall be in the land, if there shall be death, blasting and yellowness, the locust, and if there shall be the devourer; if the enemy shall press upon him in the land of his gates; every stroke and every disease:

2 Chronicles 7:13-14

If I shall shut up the heavens and there shall not be rain, and if I shall command upon the locust to consume the land, and if I shall send death upon my people; And if my people which my name was called upon them shall be humbled and pray and seek my face, and turn back from their evil ways; and I will hear from the heavens and forgive to their sin, and I will heal their land.

Psalm 78:46

And he will give their produce to the devourer, and their labor to the locust

Psalm 105:34

He said, and the locust will come and the feeder, and no number.

Joel 1:4

The residue of the creeping locust the common locust ate; and the residue of the common locust the feeder ate; and the residue of the feeder the devourer ate.

Revelation 9:7

And the likenesses of the locusts like horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as men's faces.

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Agriculture » Foes of » Locusts

Exodus 10:4

For if thou refusest to send forth my people, behold me bringing to-morrow the locust into thy bounds.

Leviticus 11:22

These from them ye shall eat; the locust according to its kind, the winged locust according to its kind, and the locust without wings according to its kind, and the leaping locust according to its kind.

Deuteronomy 28:38

Thou shalt bring out much seed to thy field, and shalt gather little, for the locust shall devour it

1 Kings 8:37

If famine shall be in the land, if there shall be death, blasting, yellowness, the locust devouring; if his enemy shall press upon him in the land of his gates, every blow, every sickness;

Proverbs 30:27

To the locust no king, and it will go forth divided all of them;

Armies » Compared to » Locusts

Isaiah 33:4

And your spoil was gathered the gathering of the locust: as the running about of locusts he ran to and fro upon it

Revelation 9:3

And out of the smoke came forth locusts into the earth: and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Revelation 9:7

And the likenesses of the locusts like horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as men's faces.

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Matthew 3:4

And this John had his garment from camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Grass » Destroyed by » Locusts

Revelation 9:4

And it was said to them that they should not injure the grass of the earth, neither any green, nor any tree; except the men only which have not the seal of God upon their foreheads.

Insects » Locusts » Moths

Job 4:19

Also those dwelling in houses of clay which their foundation in the dust, being crushed before the moth.

Job 27:18

He built his house as the moth, and as a booth he watching made.

Isaiah 50:9

Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help for me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, they all shall decay as a garment; the moth shall eat them.

Job 13:28

And he as rottenness will fall away; as a garment the moth ate it.

More verses: James 5:2 Hosea 5:12

Insects » Locusts » Spiders

Isaiah 59:5

They plundered vipers' eggs, and they will weave spiders webs: he eating from their eggs shall die, and being crushed, it shall break forth a viper.

Proverbs 30:28

The lizard will take hold with their hands, and it is in the temples of the king.

intercession » Answered » Instances of » Of moses, in behalf of pharaoh » Plague » Locusts

Exodus 10:16-20

And Pharaoh will hasten to call for Moses and for Aaron; and he will say, I sinned against Jehovah your God, and against you. And at this time take away now my sin, only this time, and pray ye to Jehovah your God, and he will remove from me only this death. And he will go forth from Pharaoh, and will pray to Jehovah. read more.
And Jehovah will turn a wind of the sea, exceedingly strong, and he will take away the locust and will drive it into the sea of sedge: not one locust remained in all the bounds of Egypt And Jehovah will bind fast the heart of Pharaoh, and he sent not forth the sons of Israel.

Locusts » Devastation by

Deuteronomy 28:38

Thou shalt bring out much seed to thy field, and shalt gather little, for the locust shall devour it

1 Kings 8:37

If famine shall be in the land, if there shall be death, blasting, yellowness, the locust devouring; if his enemy shall press upon him in the land of his gates, every blow, every sickness;

Isaiah 33:4

And your spoil was gathered the gathering of the locust: as the running about of locusts he ran to and fro upon it

2 Chronicles 7:13

If I shall shut up the heavens and there shall not be rain, and if I shall command upon the locust to consume the land, and if I shall send death upon my people;

Joel 1:4-7

The residue of the creeping locust the common locust ate; and the residue of the common locust the feeder ate; and the residue of the feeder the devourer ate. Awake, ye intoxicated, and weep; and wail, all ye drinking wine, on account of the new wine, for it was cut off from your mouth. For a nation came up upon my land, strong, and no number; his teeth the teeth of a lion, and a biter's teeth of the lioness to him. read more.
He set my vine for destruction, and my fig tree for breaking: he stripped off its covering and cast away; and its shoots were whitened.

More verses: Revelation 9:7-10

Locusts » In av often translated "grasshopper," as in

Judges 6:5

For they and their cattle will come up, and their tents will come, as an abundance of locusts for multitude; and to them and to their camels no number: and they will come into the land to destroy it

Judges 7:12

And Midain and Amalek, and all the sons of the east, encamping in the valley, as the locust for multiude; and to their camels no number, as the sand which is upon the lip of the sea for multitude.

Jeremiah 46:23

They cut down her forest, says Jehovah, for it shall not be searched out, for they were many above the locust, and no number to them.

Job 39:20

Wilt thou cause him to tremble as the locust? the glory of his snorting is terror.

Locusts » Plague of

Exodus 10:1-19

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Go to Pharaoh: for I made his heart heavy, and the heart of his servants; for sake of my setting these my signs within him. And that thou shalt recount in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what I performed in Egypt, and my signs which I set up among them; and ye knew that I am Jehovah. And Moses will come, and Aaron, to Pharaoh, and they will say to him, Thus said Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Until long didst thou refuse to humble thyself from before me. Send forth my people and they shall serve me. read more.
For if thou refusest to send forth my people, behold me bringing to-morrow the locust into thy bounds. And it covered the eye of the earth, and he shall not be able to see the earth: and it shall eat the remainder of that escaping, being left to you from the hail; and it shall eat every tree springing up to you out of the field. And they filled thy houses and all the houses of thy servants, and the houses of all Egypt; which thy fathers saw not, and thy fathers' fathers, from the day they were upon the earth, even till this day. And he will turn away and go forth from Pharaoh. And Pharaoh's servants will say to him, How long will this, be to us for a snare? Send forth the men, and they shall serve Jehovah their God, before thou shalt know that Egypt is destroyed. And he will turn back Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh, and he will say to them, Go, serve Jehovah your God: who and who are they going. And Moses will say, With our youths and with our old men will we go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and with our oxen will we go: for a festival of Jehovah is to us. And he will say to them, So will Jehovah be with you, as I will send you forth, and your little ones: see ye, for evil is manifest before you. Not so: go now, ye men, and serve Jehovah; for this ye yourselves were seeking. And he will drive them out from before Pharaoh. And Jehovah will say to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand upon the land of Egypt, with the locust, and it will come up upon the land of Egypt; and it shall eat every green herb of the land, all which the hail left And Moses will stretch forth his rod upon the land of Egypt, and Jehovah drove an east wind upon the earth, all that day and all the night: it was,morning, and the east wind raised up the locust And the locust will come up upon all the land of Egypt, and it will rest in all the bounds of Egypt exceeding many: before it was there no locust thus like it, and after it, it shall not be thus. And it will cover the eye of all the earth, and the land will be dark; and it will eat every green herb of the land, and all the fruit of the tree which the hail left: and not a green thing was left in the tree, and in the green herb of the field, in all the land of Egypt And Pharaoh will hasten to call for Moses and for Aaron; and he will say, I sinned against Jehovah your God, and against you. And at this time take away now my sin, only this time, and pray ye to Jehovah your God, and he will remove from me only this death. And he will go forth from Pharaoh, and will pray to Jehovah. And Jehovah will turn a wind of the sea, exceedingly strong, and he will take away the locust and will drive it into the sea of sedge: not one locust remained in all the bounds of Egypt

Psalm 105:34-35

He said, and the locust will come and the feeder, and no number. And it will devour all the of their land, and it will devour all the fruit of their earth.

Locusts » Used as food

Matthew 3:4

And this John had his garment from camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Mark 1:6

And John was dressed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and eating locusts and wild honey;

Locusts » Sun obscured by

Joel 2:2

A day of darkness and of thick darkness; a day of cloud and gloom as the morning spread upon the mountains: great and strong people; the like to him was not from forever, and after him there shall not be added even to the years of generation and generation.

Joel 2:10

The earth was moved before his face; the heavens trembled: the sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars took away their shining:

Locusts » Figurative

Jeremiah 46:23

They cut down her forest, says Jehovah, for it shall not be searched out, for they were many above the locust, and no number to them.

Locusts » Symbolical

Revelation 9:3-10

And out of the smoke came forth locusts into the earth: and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was said to them that they should not injure the grass of the earth, neither any green, nor any tree; except the men only which have not the seal of God upon their foreheads. And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tortured five months: and their torture as the torture of a scorpion, when he should strike a man. read more.
And in those days shall men seek death, and not find it; and shall eagerly desire to die, and death shall flee from them. And the likenesses of the locusts like horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as men's faces. And they had hair as women's hair, and their teeth were as of lions. And they had coats-of-mail, as coats-of-mail of iron; and the voice of their wings as the voice of chariots of many horses running to war. And they have tails as scorpions, and goads were in their tails: and their power to injure men five months.

Locusts » Authorized as food

Leviticus 11:22

These from them ye shall eat; the locust according to its kind, the winged locust according to its kind, and the locust without wings according to its kind, and the leaping locust according to its kind.

Locusts » Instincts of

Proverbs 30:27

To the locust no king, and it will go forth divided all of them;

Locusts » The jews » Threatened with, as a punishment for sin

Deuteronomy 28:38

Thou shalt bring out much seed to thy field, and shalt gather little, for the locust shall devour it

Deuteronomy 28:42

All thy wood and the fruit of thy land shall the grasshopper seize.

Locusts » Described as » Wise

Proverbs 30:27

To the locust no king, and it will go forth divided all of them;

Proverbs 30:24

They four the small of the earth, and they are wise, being made wise:

Locusts » A small insect

Proverbs 30:27

To the locust no king, and it will go forth divided all of them;

Proverbs 30:24

They four the small of the earth, and they are wise, being made wise:

Locusts » Carried every way by the wind

Exodus 10:13

And Moses will stretch forth his rod upon the land of Egypt, and Jehovah drove an east wind upon the earth, all that day and all the night: it was,morning, and the east wind raised up the locust

Exodus 10:19

And Jehovah will turn a wind of the sea, exceedingly strong, and he will take away the locust and will drive it into the sea of sedge: not one locust remained in all the bounds of Egypt

Locusts » Described as » Like to horses prepared for battle

Revelation 9:7

And the likenesses of the locusts like horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as men's faces.

Joel 2:4

His appearance as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen so shall they run.

Locusts » Immensely numerous

Psalm 105:34

He said, and the locust will come and the feeder, and no number.

Nahum 3:15

There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall devour thee as the feeder: make thee numerous as the feeder, make thee numerous as the locust

Locusts » Illustrative » Of destructive enemies

Joel 1:6

For a nation came up upon my land, strong, and no number; his teeth the teeth of a lion, and a biter's teeth of the lioness to him.

Joel 2:2-9

A day of darkness and of thick darkness; a day of cloud and gloom as the morning spread upon the mountains: great and strong people; the like to him was not from forever, and after him there shall not be added even to the years of generation and generation. Before him a fire devoured, and after him a flame shall burn; the land as the garden of Eden before him, and after him a desert of desolation; and also there was no escaping to him. His appearance as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen so shall they run. read more.
As the voice of chariots upon the heads of the mountains they shall leap, as the voice of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, as a strong people set in order for battle. From his face peoples shall be pained: all faces gathered a glow. They shall run as strong men; as men of war they shall come up upon the wall; and they shall go each in his ways; they shall not change their paths. And they shall not thrust a man his brother; they shall go a man in his high way: and in the midst of the javelin shall they fall, they shall not be cut in pieces. In the city they shall run up and down; on the wall shall they run, into the houses they shall come up, through the windows shall they come in as a thief.

Locusts » The jews » Promised deliverance from the plague of, on humiliation, &c

2 Chronicles 7:13-14

If I shall shut up the heavens and there shall not be rain, and if I shall command upon the locust to consume the land, and if I shall send death upon my people; And if my people which my name was called upon them shall be humbled and pray and seek my face, and turn back from their evil ways; and I will hear from the heavens and forgive to their sin, and I will heal their land.

Locusts » The jews » Often plagued by

Joel 1:4

The residue of the creeping locust the common locust ate; and the residue of the common locust the feeder ate; and the residue of the feeder the devourer ate.

Joel 2:25

And I requited to you the years which the common locust ate, the feeder, and the devourer, and the creeping locust, my great army which I sent among you.

Locusts » Clean and fit for food

Leviticus 11:21-22

But this ye shall eat, from every creeping bird going upon four, to which legs from above its feet to spring with them upon the earth. These from them ye shall eat; the locust according to its kind, the winged locust according to its kind, and the locust without wings according to its kind, and the leaping locust according to its kind.

Locusts » The jews » Deprecated the plague of

1 Kings 8:37-38

If famine shall be in the land, if there shall be death, blasting, yellowness, the locust devouring; if his enemy shall press upon him in the land of his gates, every blow, every sickness; Every prayer, every supplication which shall be to every man to all thy people Israel which shall know a man the blow to his heart and spread forth his hands to this house:

Locusts » Illustrative » Of false teachers of the apostacy

Revelation 9:3

And out of the smoke came forth locusts into the earth: and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Locusts » Flies in bands and with order

Proverbs 30:27

To the locust no king, and it will go forth divided all of them;

Locusts » One of the plagues of egypt

Exodus 10:4-15

For if thou refusest to send forth my people, behold me bringing to-morrow the locust into thy bounds. And it covered the eye of the earth, and he shall not be able to see the earth: and it shall eat the remainder of that escaping, being left to you from the hail; and it shall eat every tree springing up to you out of the field. And they filled thy houses and all the houses of thy servants, and the houses of all Egypt; which thy fathers saw not, and thy fathers' fathers, from the day they were upon the earth, even till this day. And he will turn away and go forth from Pharaoh. read more.
And Pharaoh's servants will say to him, How long will this, be to us for a snare? Send forth the men, and they shall serve Jehovah their God, before thou shalt know that Egypt is destroyed. And he will turn back Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh, and he will say to them, Go, serve Jehovah your God: who and who are they going. And Moses will say, With our youths and with our old men will we go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and with our oxen will we go: for a festival of Jehovah is to us. And he will say to them, So will Jehovah be with you, as I will send you forth, and your little ones: see ye, for evil is manifest before you. Not so: go now, ye men, and serve Jehovah; for this ye yourselves were seeking. And he will drive them out from before Pharaoh. And Jehovah will say to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand upon the land of Egypt, with the locust, and it will come up upon the land of Egypt; and it shall eat every green herb of the land, all which the hail left And Moses will stretch forth his rod upon the land of Egypt, and Jehovah drove an east wind upon the earth, all that day and all the night: it was,morning, and the east wind raised up the locust And the locust will come up upon all the land of Egypt, and it will rest in all the bounds of Egypt exceeding many: before it was there no locust thus like it, and after it, it shall not be thus. And it will cover the eye of all the earth, and the land will be dark; and it will eat every green herb of the land, and all the fruit of the tree which the hail left: and not a green thing was left in the tree, and in the green herb of the field, in all the land of Egypt

Locusts » Described as » Voracious

Exodus 10:15

And it will cover the eye of all the earth, and the land will be dark; and it will eat every green herb of the land, and all the fruit of the tree which the hail left: and not a green thing was left in the tree, and in the green herb of the field, in all the land of Egypt

Locusts » Described as » Rapid in movement

Isaiah 33:4

And your spoil was gathered the gathering of the locust: as the running about of locusts he ran to and fro upon it

Locusts » The jews » Used as food

Matthew 3:4

And this John had his garment from camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Locusts » Illustrative » (destruction of,) of destruction of God's enemies

Nahum 3:15

There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall devour thee as the feeder: make thee numerous as the feeder, make thee numerous as the locust

Locusts » Illustrative » Of unGodly rulers

Nahum 3:17

Thy devoted ones as the locust, and thy satraps as the locust of locusts encamping in the walls in a cold day; the sun arose and they fled away, and where his place he knew not

Miracles » To witness to Christ as messiah spurious » Locusts

Exodus 10:13

And Moses will stretch forth his rod upon the land of Egypt, and Jehovah drove an east wind upon the earth, all that day and all the night: it was,morning, and the east wind raised up the locust

Exodus 10:19

And Jehovah will turn a wind of the sea, exceedingly strong, and he will take away the locust and will drive it into the sea of sedge: not one locust remained in all the bounds of Egypt

Plague » Locusts

Exodus 10:1-20

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Go to Pharaoh: for I made his heart heavy, and the heart of his servants; for sake of my setting these my signs within him. And that thou shalt recount in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what I performed in Egypt, and my signs which I set up among them; and ye knew that I am Jehovah. And Moses will come, and Aaron, to Pharaoh, and they will say to him, Thus said Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Until long didst thou refuse to humble thyself from before me. Send forth my people and they shall serve me. read more.
For if thou refusest to send forth my people, behold me bringing to-morrow the locust into thy bounds. And it covered the eye of the earth, and he shall not be able to see the earth: and it shall eat the remainder of that escaping, being left to you from the hail; and it shall eat every tree springing up to you out of the field. And they filled thy houses and all the houses of thy servants, and the houses of all Egypt; which thy fathers saw not, and thy fathers' fathers, from the day they were upon the earth, even till this day. And he will turn away and go forth from Pharaoh. And Pharaoh's servants will say to him, How long will this, be to us for a snare? Send forth the men, and they shall serve Jehovah their God, before thou shalt know that Egypt is destroyed. And he will turn back Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh, and he will say to them, Go, serve Jehovah your God: who and who are they going. And Moses will say, With our youths and with our old men will we go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and with our oxen will we go: for a festival of Jehovah is to us. And he will say to them, So will Jehovah be with you, as I will send you forth, and your little ones: see ye, for evil is manifest before you. Not so: go now, ye men, and serve Jehovah; for this ye yourselves were seeking. And he will drive them out from before Pharaoh. And Jehovah will say to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand upon the land of Egypt, with the locust, and it will come up upon the land of Egypt; and it shall eat every green herb of the land, all which the hail left And Moses will stretch forth his rod upon the land of Egypt, and Jehovah drove an east wind upon the earth, all that day and all the night: it was,morning, and the east wind raised up the locust And the locust will come up upon all the land of Egypt, and it will rest in all the bounds of Egypt exceeding many: before it was there no locust thus like it, and after it, it shall not be thus. And it will cover the eye of all the earth, and the land will be dark; and it will eat every green herb of the land, and all the fruit of the tree which the hail left: and not a green thing was left in the tree, and in the green herb of the field, in all the land of Egypt And Pharaoh will hasten to call for Moses and for Aaron; and he will say, I sinned against Jehovah your God, and against you. And at this time take away now my sin, only this time, and pray ye to Jehovah your God, and he will remove from me only this death. And he will go forth from Pharaoh, and will pray to Jehovah. And Jehovah will turn a wind of the sea, exceedingly strong, and he will take away the locust and will drive it into the sea of sedge: not one locust remained in all the bounds of Egypt And Jehovah will bind fast the heart of Pharaoh, and he sent not forth the sons of Israel.

Trees » Often suffered from » Locusts

Exodus 10:15

And it will cover the eye of all the earth, and the land will be dark; and it will eat every green herb of the land, and all the fruit of the tree which the hail left: and not a green thing was left in the tree, and in the green herb of the field, in all the land of Egypt

Exodus 10:5

And it covered the eye of the earth, and he shall not be able to see the earth: and it shall eat the remainder of that escaping, being left to you from the hail; and it shall eat every tree springing up to you out of the field.

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Matthew 3:4

And this John had his garment from camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

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