Bible Verses about “locusts”

“Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.”

“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.”

“"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;”

“They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.”

“In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.”

“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.”

“They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.”

“They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don't have God's seal on their foreheads.”

“They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.”

“They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.”

“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 fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.”

“They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon," but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon."”

“He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.”

“The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.”

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

“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.”

“Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.”

“For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.”

“He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.”

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

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

“Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them,”

“and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."”

“Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.”

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

“and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.”

“Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.”

“Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"”

“Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?"”

“Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh."”

“He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.”

“Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.”

“Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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.”

“For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.”

“Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.”

“Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."”

“He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.”

“Yahweh 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.”