Joel 1:4

God's Word

What young locusts leave, mature locusts will eat. What mature locusts leave, adult locusts will eat. What adult locusts leave, grasshoppers will eat.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:37

“There may be famine in the land. Plant diseases, heat waves, funguses, locusts, or grasshoppers may destroy crops. Enemies may blockade Israel’s city gates. During every plague or sickness

2 Chronicles 6:28

“There may be famine in the land. Plant diseases, heat waves, funguses, locusts, or grasshoppers may destroy crops. Enemies may blockade Israel’s city gates. During every plague or sickness

2 Chronicles 7:13

I may shut the sky so that there is no rain, or command grasshoppers to devour the countryside, or send an epidemic among my people.

Psalm 105:34

He spoke, and countless locusts and grasshoppers came.

Psalm 78:46

He gave their crops to grasshoppers and their produce to locusts.

Exodus 10:4

If you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.

Exodus 10:5

They will cover the land so that the ground can’t be seen. They will eat everything left by the hail, including every tree still standing in the fields.

Isaiah 33:4

You nations, your loot is gathered as grasshoppers harvest a crop. Like swarming locusts, people rush for your loot.

Jeremiah 51:14

The Lord of Armies has taken an oath on himself: “I will certainly fill you with many enemy armies. They will swarm like locusts. People will shout their victory over you.”

Jeremiah 51:27

Raise your battle flag throughout the world. Blow the ram’s horn among the nations. Prepare nations to attack Babylon. Tell the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz to attack it. Appoint a commander to lead the attack. Bring up horses like a swarm of locusts.

Joel 2:25

“Then I will repay you for the years that the mature locusts, the adult locusts, the grasshoppers, and the young locusts ate your crops. (They are the large army that I sent against you.)

Amos 4:9

I struck your ⌞crops⌟ with blight and mildew. Locusts repeatedly devoured your gardens, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord.

Amos 7:1

This is what the Almighty Lord showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts when the second crop was being harvested. It was the harvest that followed the harvest for the king.

Malachi 3:11

Then, for your sake, I will stop insects from eating ⌞your crops⌟. They will not destroy the produce of your land. The vines in your fields will not lose their unripened grapes,” says the Lord of Armies.

Deuteronomy 28:38

You will plant many crops in your fields, but harvest little because locusts will destroy your crops.

Deuteronomy 28:42

Crickets will swarm all over your trees and the crops in your fields.