17 Verses About Locusts from 11 Books

Amos 7:1

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.

Exodus 10:4

Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,

Exodus 10:12

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."

Exodus 10:13

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.

Exodus 10:14

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.

Exodus 10:19

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.

Isaiah 33:4

Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.



Jeremiah 46:23

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.

Judges 6:5

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.

Judges 7:12

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.

Mark 1:6

John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 3:4

Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

Nahum 3:17

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.

Proverbs 30:27

The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.



Psalms 105:34

He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,

Revelation 9:3

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.

Revelation 9:7

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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