Proverbs 30:27

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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 the locusts into thy coast: 5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot 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 they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
  • Ps 105:34 : 34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
  • Joel 1:6-7 : 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. 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 cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
  • Rev 9:3-9 : 3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. 5 And to them it was given 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 he striketh a man. 6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 7 And the shapes of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as the faces of men. 8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [the 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 running to battle. 10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power [was] to hurt men five months. 11 And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon.
  • Joel 2:7-9 : 7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: 8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and [when] they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. 10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: 11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp [is] very great: for [he is] strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD [is] great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
  • Joel 1:4 : 4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
  • Exod 10:13-15 : 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all [that] 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 coasts 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 in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

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    17 Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].

    18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell [in the dust]: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth [them].

  • Prov 30:25-26
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    25 The ants [are] a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

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

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

    29 ¶ There be three [things] which go well, yea, four are comely in going:

    30 A lion [which is] strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;

    31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom [there is] no rising up.

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

  • Ps 105:34
    71%

    34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,

  • Jer 46:22-23
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    71%

    22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

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

  • Ps 78:46
    71%

    46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

  • Deut 28:42
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    42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

  • Job 30:6-7
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    69%

    6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.

    7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

  • Amos 7:1
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    1 ¶ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers 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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    38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather [but] little in; for the locust shall consume it.

  • Exod 10:12
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    12 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine 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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    4 And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

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

  • Joel 1:4
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    4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

  • Amos 3:4
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    4 Will 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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    16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

  • Isa 34:12
    67%

    12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

  • Lev 11:22
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    22 [Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

  • Job 24:5
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    5 Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.

  • Job 28:8
    67%

    8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

  • Hab 1:14
    67%

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

  • Exod 10:19
    67%

    19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

  • Joel 1:18
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    18 How 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
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    4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:

  • Rev 9:7
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    7 And the shapes of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as the faces of men.

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

  • Hab 3:17
    67%

    17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall] fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls:

  • Isa 7:19
    67%

    19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

  • Deut 32:28
    67%

    28 For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.

  • Amos 1:15
    67%

    15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.

  • Ps 107:40
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    40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, [where there is] no way.

  • Ps 148:10
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    10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:

  • Hos 10:3
    66%

    3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?

  • Ps 109:23
    66%

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

  • Jer 4:25
    66%

    25 I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

  • Ps 129:7
    66%

    7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

  • Joel 2:7
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    7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: