Proverbs 30:27

American Standard Version (1901)

The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of them by bands;

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  • Exod 10:4-6 : 4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border: 5 and they shall cover the face of the earth, so that one shall not be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field: 6 and thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither thy fathers nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned, and went out from Pharaoh.
  • Ps 105:34 : 34 He spake, and the locust came, And the grasshopper, and that without number,
  • Joel 1:6-7 : 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness. 7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
  • Joel 2:25 : 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.
  • Rev 9:3-9 : 3 And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man. 6 And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them. 7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men's faces. 8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [teeth] of lions. 9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to war. 10 And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months. 11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek [tongue] he hath the name Apollyon.
  • Joel 2:7-9 : 7 They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and they break not their ranks. 8 Neither doth one thrust another; they march every one in his path; and they burst through the weapons, and break not off [their course] . 9 They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief. 10 The earth quaketh before them; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. 11 And Jehovah uttereth his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for he is strong that executeth his word; for the day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
  • Joel 1:4 : 4 That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
  • Exod 10:13-15 : 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. 15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

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    15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.

    16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.

    17Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

    18Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles are at rest; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them.

  • Prov 30:25-26
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    25The ants are a people not strong, Yet they provide their food in the summer;

    26The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;

  • Prov 6:7
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    7Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,

  • Prov 30:28-31
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    28The lizard taketh hold with her hands, Yet is she in kings' palaces.

    29There are three things which are stately in their march, Yea, four which are stately in going:

    30The lion, which is mightiest among beasts, And turneth not away for any;

    31The greyhound; The he-goat also; And the king against whom there is no rising up.

  • Exod 10:14
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    14And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

  • Ps 105:34
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    34He spake, and the locust came, And the grasshopper, and that without number,

  • Jer 46:22-23
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    22The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

    23They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

  • Ps 78:46
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    46He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust.

  • Deut 28:42
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    42All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.

  • Job 30:6-7
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    69%

    6So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

    7Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.

  • Amos 7:1
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    1Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

  • Deut 28:38
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    38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

  • Exod 10:12
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    12And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.

  • Isa 33:4
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    4And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth: as locusts leap shall men leap upon it.

  • Rev 9:3
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    3And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

  • Joel 1:4
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    4That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.

  • Amos 3:4
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    4Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

  • Ps 33:16
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    16There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

  • Isa 34:12
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    12They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

  • Lev 11:22
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    22Even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.

  • Job 24:5
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    5Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness [yieldeth] them bread for their children.

  • Job 28:8
    67%

    8The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.

  • Hab 1:14
    67%

    14and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

  • Exod 10:19
    67%

    19And Jehovah turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt.

  • Joel 1:18
    67%

    18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

  • Exod 10:4
    67%

    4Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border:

  • Rev 9:7
    67%

    7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men's faces.

  • Job 37:8
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    8Then the beasts go into coverts, And remain in their dens.

  • Hab 3:17
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    17For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls:

  • Isa 7:19
    67%

    19And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorn-hedges, and upon all pastures.

  • Deut 32:28
    67%

    28For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.

  • Amos 1:15
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    15and their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith Jehovah.

  • Ps 107:40
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    40He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

  • Ps 148:10
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    10Beasts and all cattle; Creeping things and flying birds;

  • Hos 10:3
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    3Surely now shall they say, We have no king; for we fear not Jehovah; and the king, what can he do for us?

  • Ps 109:23
    66%

    23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

  • Jer 4:25
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    25I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

  • Joel 2:7
    66%

    7They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and they break not their ranks.