Jeremiah 51:14

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord of hosts has sworn by himself: I will fill you with people as numerous as locusts, who shall raise over you a joyous shout!

Cross References

Psalm 105:34

He spoke and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number.

Jeremiah 44:26

And then listen to the word of the Lord, all you Judahites living in Egypt; I swear by my own great name, says the Lord: in the whole land of Egypt, my name shall no longer be pronounced by the lips of any Judahite, saying, “As the Lord God lives.”

Jeremiah 46:23

They cut down her forest—oracle of the Lord— impenetrable though it be; More numerous than locusts, they cannot be counted.

Jeremiah 49:13

By myself I have sworn—oracle of the Lord—Bozrah shall become an object of horror, a disgrace, a desolation, and a curse. Bozrah and all its cities shall become ruins forever.

Jeremiah 50:15

raise the war cry against it on every side. It surrenders, its bastions fall, its walls are torn down: This is retribution from the Lord! Take retribution on her, as she has done, do to her; for she sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:27

Raise a signal in the land, sound the trumpet among the nations; Dedicate nations for war against her, summon against her the kingdoms: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; Appoint a recruiting officer against her, dispatch horses like bristling locusts.

Joel 2:25

I will repay you double what the swarming locust has eaten, The hopper, the consuming locust, and the cutter, my great army I sent against you.

Amos 6:8

The Lord God has sworn by his very self— an oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob, I hate his strongholds, and I will hand over the city with everything in it;

Hebrews 6:13

When God made the promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, “he swore by himself,”

Judges 6:5

For they would come up with their livestock, and their tents would appear as thick as locusts. They would be too many to count when they came into the land to lay it waste.