Joel 1:4

New American Bible - revised edition

What the cutter left, the swarming locust has devoured; What the swarming locust left, the hopper has devoured; What the hopper left, the consuming locust has devoured.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:37

“If there is famine in the land or pestilence; or if blight comes, or mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars; if an enemy of your people presses upon them in the land and at their gates; whatever plague or sickness there may be;

2 Chronicles 6:28

“If there is famine in the land or pestilence; or if blight comes, or mildew, or locusts swarm, or caterpillars; when their enemies besiege them at any of their gates; whatever plague or sickness there may be;

2 Chronicles 7:13

If I close heaven so that there is no rain, if I command the locust to devour the land, if I send pestilence among my people,

Psalm 105:34

He spoke and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number.

Psalm 78:46

He gave their harvest to the caterpillar, the fruits of their labor to the locust.

Exodus 10:4

For if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

Exodus 10:5

They will cover the surface of the earth, so that the earth itself will not be visible. They will eat up the remnant you saved undamaged from the hail, as well as all the trees that are growing in your fields.

Isaiah 33:4

Spoil is gathered up as caterpillars gather, an onrush like the rush of locusts.

Jeremiah 51:14

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!

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 4:9

I struck you with blight and mildew; locusts devoured your gardens and vineyards, the caterpillar consumed your fig trees and olive trees; Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

Amos 7:1

This is what the Lord God showed me: He was forming a locust swarm when the late growth began to come up (the late growth after the king’s mowing).

Malachi 3:11

I will rebuke the locust for you so that it will not destroy your crops, And the vine in the field will not be barren, says the Lord of hosts.

Deuteronomy 28:38

Though you take out seed to your field, you will harvest but little, for the locusts will devour it.

Deuteronomy 28:42

Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and the crops of your soil.