Joel 1:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten; and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:37

“If there is famine in the land, if there is plague, blight, mildew, locust, or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in any of their cities; whatever suffering, whatever sickness there is;

2 Chronicles 6:28

“If there is famine in the land, if there is plague, blight, mildew, locust, or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in any of the settlements of the lands; whatever suffering, whatever sickness there is;

2 Chronicles 7:13

When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain or command the locust to devour the land or send pestilence among my people,

Psalm 105:34

He spoke, and the locusts came, and young locusts without number;

Psalm 78:46

He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit 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 country.

Exodus 10:5

They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They shall devour the last remnant left you after the hail, and they shall devour every tree of yours that grows in the field.

Isaiah 33:4

Spoil was gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, they leaped upon it.

Jeremiah 51:14

The Lord of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with troops like a swarm of locusts, and they shall raise a shout of victory over you.

Jeremiah 51:27

Raise a standard in the land; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.

Joel 2:25

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.

Amos 4:9

I struck you with blight and mildew; I laid waste your gardens and your vineyards; the locust devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.

Amos 7:1

This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings).

Malachi 3:11

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

Deuteronomy 28:38

“You shall carry much seed into the field but shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.

Deuteronomy 28:42

All your trees and the fruit of your ground the cicada shall take over.