27 Bible Verses about worms
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But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me. For their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.
Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of thy viols. The worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
Thou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather, for the worm shall eat them.
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel. I will help thee, says LORD, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
And after my skin, this [body], is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God,
The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
Whatever goes upon the belly, and whatever goes upon all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat, for they are an abomination.
They shall lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close places. They shall come with fear to LORD our God, and shall be afraid because of thee.
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
And immediately an agent of Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And after becoming worm-eaten, he expired.
Notwithstanding they did not hearken to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul, and Moses was angry with them.
And I will restore to you the years that the locust, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm has eaten--my great army which I sent among you.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool. But my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations.
if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
for from these are those who creep into houses, and take captive petty women laden with sins, being led away by various impulses,
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade, and it did not become foul, neither was there any worm in it.
Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Those who see thee shall gaze at thee. They shall consider thee, [saying], Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,
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And immediately an agent of Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And after becoming worm-eaten, he expired.