Proverbs 30:27

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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 the 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 gen thing, neither any te; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foheads. 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 desi to die, and death shall flee from them. 7 And the shapes of the locusts we like unto horses ppad unto battle; and on their heads we as it we crowns like gold, and their faces we as the faces of men. 8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth we as the teeth of lions. 9 And they had bastplates, as it we bastplates 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 the we 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 Hebw tongue is Abaddon, but in the Gek 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.

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  • Nah 3:15-18
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    76%

    15There 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.

    16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

    17Thy 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.

    18Thy 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.

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    25The ants are a people not strong, yet they epare their meat in the summer;

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

  • 7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

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    28The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

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

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

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

  • 14And 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.

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

  • Jer 46:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22The voice thereof shall go like a 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 the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

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

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

  • Job 30:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

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

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

  • 1Thus 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.

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

  • 12And 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.

  • 4And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

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

  • 4That 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.

  • 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?

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

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

  • 22Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beet after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

  • 5Behold, 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.

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

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

  • 19And 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.

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

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

  • 7And the shapes of the locusts we like unto horses ppad unto battle; and on their heads we as it we crowns like gold, and their faces we as the faces of men.

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

  • 17Although 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:

  • 19And 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.

  • 28For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any unrstanding in them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 7They 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: