Deuteronomy 28:38
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38 “You shall carry much seed into the field but shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.(A)
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Isaiah 33:4
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4 Spoil was gathered as the caterpillar gathers;
as locusts leap, they leaped[a] upon it.
Footnotes
- 33.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Joel 2:25
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25 I will repay you for the years
that the swarming locust has eaten,
the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,
my great army that I sent against you.(A)
Nahum 3:15
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15 There the fire will devour you;
the sword will cut you off.
It will devour you like the locust.
Multiply yourselves like the locust;
multiply like the grasshopper!(A)
Nahum 3:16
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16 You increased your merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
The locust sheds its skin and flies away.
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