39 Bible Verses about bugs
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They have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months.
Dead flies make a perfumer’s oil stink, so a little foolishness is weightier than wisdom and honor.
Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all fours, whatever has many feet, in respect to every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are detestable.
He spoke, and there came a swarm of flies
And gnats in all their territory.
Then the Lord did so. And there came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and the houses of his servants and the land was laid waste because of the swarms of flies in all the land of Egypt.
‘All the winged insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.
For if you do not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they dwell.
“I know every bird of the mountains,
And everything that moves in the field is Mine.
Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes,” says the Lord of hosts.
And all the teeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten.
And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man.
The ants are not a strong people,
But they prepare their food in the summer;
These of them you may eat: the locust in its kinds, and the devastating locust in its kinds, and the cricket in its kinds, and the grasshopper in its kinds.
The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.
They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle.
And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,
And frogs which destroyed them.
So the Lord God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was extremely happy about the plant.
There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man casts out demons only by Beelzebul the ruler of the demons.”
I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.
But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered.
“Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel;
I will help you,” declares the Lord, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog, a single flea?
You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
The Lord did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants and from his people; not one remained.
So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord directed an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
‘By these, moreover, you will be made unclean: whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,