39 Bible Verses about bugs

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Revelation 9:10

They have tails like scorpions, and stingers; and in their tails is their power to hurt people for five months.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give off a foul odor; so a little foolishness [in one who is esteemed] outweighs wisdom and honor.

Leviticus 11:42

Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all fours, and whatever has many feet among all things that swarm on the ground, you shall not eat; for they are detestable.

Psalm 105:31


He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
And gnats in all their territory.

Exodus 8:24

Then the Lord did so. And there came heavy and oppressive swarms of [bloodsucking] insects into the house of Pharaoh and his servants’ houses; in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted and ruined because of the [great invasion of] insects.

Leviticus 11:20

‘All winged insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you;

Exodus 8:21

For if you do not let My people go, hear this: I will send swarms of [bloodsucking] insects 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 insects, as well as the ground on which they stand.

Psalm 50:11


“I know every bird of the mountains,
And everything that moves in the field is Mine.

Deuteronomy 28:42

The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground.

Malachi 3:11

Then I will rebuke the devourer (insects, plague) for your sake and he will not destroy the fruits of the ground, nor will your vine in the field drop its grapes [before harvest],” says the Lord of hosts.

Deuteronomy 14:19

And all flying insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

Revelation 9:5

They were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment and cause them extreme pain for five months; and their torment was like the torment from a scorpion when it stings a man.

Proverbs 30:25


The ants are not a strong people,
Yet they prepare their food in the summer;

Leviticus 11:22

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

Revelation 9:7

The locusts resembled horses prepared and equipped for battle; and on their heads appeared to be [something like] golden crowns, and their faces resembled human faces.

Mark 9:48

where their worm [that feeds on the dead] does not die, and the fire is not put out.

Revelation 9:9

They had breastplates (scales) like breastplates made of iron; and the [whirring] noise of their wings was like the [thunderous] noise of countless horse-drawn chariots charging [at full speed] into battle.

Psalm 148:10


Beasts and all cattle;
Creeping things and winged birds;

Revelation 9:3

Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power [to hurt] was given to them, like the power which the earth’s scorpions have.

Genesis 1:21

God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind; and God saw that it was good and He affirmed and sustained it.

Genesis 1:25

So God made the wild animals of the earth according to their kind, and the cattle according to their kind, and everything that creeps and crawls on the earth according to its kind; and God saw that it was good (pleasing, useful) and He affirmed and sustained it.

Psalm 78:45


He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,
And frogs which destroyed them.

Jonah 4:6

So the Lord God prepared a plant and it grew up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head to spare him from discomfort. And Jonah was extremely happy about [the protection of] the plant.

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.”

Acts 10:14

But Peter said, “Not at all, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common (unholy) and [ceremonially] unclean.”

Joel 1:1

The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

Exodus 23:28

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

Jonah 4:7

But God prepared a worm when morning dawned the next day, and it attacked the plant and it withered.

Isaiah 41:14


“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.

1 Samuel 24:14

After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue [with three thousand men]? A dead dog, a single flea?

Matthew 23:24

You [spiritually] blind guides, who strain out a gnat [consuming yourselves with miniscule matters] and swallow a camel [ignoring and violating God’s precepts]!

Exodus 8:31

The Lord did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of [bloodsucking] insects from Pharaoh, from his servants and from his people; not one remained.

Exodus 10:13

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; when it was morning, the east wind had brought the [swarms of] locusts.

Leviticus 11:24

‘By [contact with] these you will become unclean; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until the evening (dusk),

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