Proverbs 30:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands;

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  • Exod 10:4-6 : 4 For if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will send locusts into your land: 5 And the face of the earth will be covered with them, so that you will not be able to see the earth: and they will be the destruction of everything which up to now has not been damaged, everything which was not crushed by the ice-storm, and every tree still living in your fields. 6 And your houses will be full of them, and the houses of your servants and of all the Egyptians; it will be worse than anything your fathers have seen or their fathers, from the day when they were living on the earth till this day. And so he went out from Pharaoh.
  • Ps 105:34 : 34 At his word the locusts came, and young locusts more than might be numbered,
  • Joel 1:6-7 : 6 For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion. 7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.
  • Joel 2:25 : 25 I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.
  • Rev 9:3-9 : 3 And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions. 4 And they were ordered to do no damage to the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only to such men as have not the mark of God on their brows. 5 And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion. 6 And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them. 7 And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. 8 And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 9 And they had breastplates like iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of carriages, like an army of horses rushing to the fight. 10 And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months. 11 They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.
  • Joel 2:7-9 : 7 They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken. 8 No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken. 9 They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief. 10 The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining: 11 And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?
  • Joel 1:4 : 4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.
  • Exod 10:13-15 : 13 And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will be again. 15 For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.

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    25 The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of food in the summer;

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    28 You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings' houses.

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    14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will be again.

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    34 At his word the locusts came, and young locusts more than might be numbered,

  • Jer 46:22-23
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    22 She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters.

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    46 He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.

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    42 All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.

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    6 They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

    7 They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

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    1 This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king's cutting was done.

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    38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

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    12 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm.

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    4 And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.

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    3 And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions.

  • Joel 1:4
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    4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.

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    4 Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

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    16 A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength.

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    12 The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.

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    22 Such as all the different sorts of locust.

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    5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

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    14 He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

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    19 And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.

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    18 What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

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    4 For if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will send locusts into your land:

  • Rev 9:7
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    7 And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

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    8 Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.

  • Hab 3:17
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    17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

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    19 And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places.

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    28 For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

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    15 And their king will be made prisoner, he and his captains together, says the Lord.

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    40 He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

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    10 Beasts and all cattle; insects and winged birds:

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    3 Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?

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    23 I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

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    25 Looking, I saw that there was no man, and all the birds of heaven had gone in flight.

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    7 They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.