"If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
"If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;
"If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
"I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me," says the LORD.
Thus the Lord the LORD showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest.
You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.
Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left."
Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
the LORD turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.
For they came up with their livestock and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.
The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
Also a great number of diverse countries came with them, like locusts and like the sand of the earth, for their multitude was without number.
Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.
John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.
He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people's faces.
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