Joel 1:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

What the palmerworm has left, the locust has eaten; and what the locust has left, the cankerworm has eaten; and what the cankerworm has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    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.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Loke what the caterpiller hath lefte, yt hath the greshopper eaten vp: what the greshopper lefte, that hath the locuste eaten vp: & what the locuste hath lefte, that hath the blastinge consumed.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    That which is left of ye palmer worme, hath the grashopper eaten, & the residue of ye grashopper hath the canker worme eaten, and the residue of the canker worme hath the caterpiller eaten.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    That which the caterpiller hath left the grashopper hath eaten, and what the grashopper left hath the canker worme eaten, and what the canker worme left the locust hath deuoured.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    What is left of the palmer-worm, eaten hath the locust, And what is left of the locust, Eaten hath the cankerworm, And what is left of the cankerworm, Eaten hath the caterpillar.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    What the gazam-locust left the‘arbeh-locust consumed, what the‘arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed, and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed!

Referenced Verses

  • Joel 2:25 : 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
  • Amos 4:9 : 9 I have struck you with blight and mildew: when your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees increased, the locust devoured them: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.
  • Amos 7:1 : 1 Thus the Lord GOD showed to me; and, behold, he formed locusts at the beginning of the late growth; and, lo, it was the late growth after the king's mowings.
  • Exod 10:4 : 4 But if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory:
  • Deut 28:38 : 38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
  • Ps 78:46 : 46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labor unto the locust.
  • Ps 105:34 : 34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,
  • Isa 33:4 : 4 Your spoil will be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar; as locusts run to and fro, he will run upon them.
  • Jer 51:14 : 14 The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts; and they shall lift up a shout against you.
  • Jer 51:27 : 27 Set up a banner in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a captain against her, cause the horses to come up like the braying locusts.
  • Deut 28:42 : 42 All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume.
  • 1 Kgs 8:37 : 37 If there is in the land famine, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or if there is caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
  • 2 Chr 6:28 : 28 If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is:
  • 2 Chr 7:13 : 13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people;
  • Exod 10:12-15 : 12 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has left. 13 And Moses stretched out 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 territory of Egypt; they were very grievous; before them there were no locusts like them, nor after them shall be such. 15 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and no green thing remained in the trees or in the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.
  • Nah 3:15-17 : 15 There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts. 16 You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven: the locust spoils, and flies away. 17 Your crowned are as the locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
  • Rev 9:3-7 : 3 And out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and to them was given power, like the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was commanded them that they should not harm the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6 And in those days men will seek death and will not find it, and will desire to die, and death will flee from them. 7 The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads were crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Joel 2:25
    79%

    25And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

  • Joel 1:3
    78%

    3Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

  • Nah 3:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.

    16You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven: the locust spoils, and flies away.

    17Your crowned are as the locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

  • Amos 4:9
    77%

    9I have struck you with blight and mildew: when your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees increased, the locust devoured them: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.

  • Deut 28:42
    76%

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

  • Ps 78:46
    76%

    46He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labor unto the locust.

  • Ps 105:34-35
    2 verses
    74%

    34He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,

    35And ate up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

  • Amos 7:1
    73%

    1Thus the Lord GOD showed to me; and, behold, he formed locusts at the beginning of the late growth; and, lo, it was the late growth after the king's mowings.

  • Isa 33:4
    73%

    4Your spoil will be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar; as locusts run to and fro, he will run upon them.

  • Deut 28:38-39
    2 verses
    73%

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

    39You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

  • Jer 5:17
    73%

    17And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

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    73%

    17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • Joel 1:5
    72%

    5Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Joel 1:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11Be ashamed, you farmers; howl, you vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.

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  • Exod 10:5
    71%

    5And they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one will not be able to see the earth; and they shall eat the rest of what is left to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree that grows for you out of the field:

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    71%

    22Of these you 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.

  • Jer 51:14
    70%

    14The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts; and they shall lift up a shout against you.

  • Exod 10:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the territory of Egypt; they were very grievous; before them there were no locusts like them, nor after them shall be such.

    15For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and no green thing remained in the trees or in the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.

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    70%

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  • Hab 3:17
    70%

    17Though the fig tree shall not blossom, nor fruit be on 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.

  • Jer 46:23
    70%

    23They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it cannot be comprehended; because they are more numerous than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

  • Joel 2:3
    70%

    3A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and nothing shall escape them.

  • Hos 4:3
    69%

    3Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; yes, the fish of the sea also shall be taken away.

  • Deut 28:51
    69%

    51And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed: which also shall not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of your kine, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you.

  • Exod 10:12
    69%

    12And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has left.

  • Obad 1:5
    69%

    5If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you are cut off!—would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes?

  • Jer 8:13
    69%

    13I will surely consume them, says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall wither; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

  • Jer 31:29
    69%

    29In those days they shall no longer say, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

  • Isa 1:7
    69%

    7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

  • Jonah 4:7
    68%

    7But God prepared a worm when the morning arose the next day, and it attacked the plant so that it withered.

  • Isa 17:6
    68%

    6Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree: two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches, says the LORD God of Israel.

  • Isa 24:6
    68%

    6Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

  • Ps 80:13
    68%

    13The boar out of the woods destroys it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.

  • Isa 24:12
    68%

    12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

  • Job 5:5
    68%

    5Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

  • Isa 27:10
    68%

    10Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.

  • Jer 12:4
    68%

    4How long will the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds are consumed, because they said, 'He will not see our final end.'

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    68%

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    68%

    20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is ruined: suddenly my tents are ruined, and my curtains in a moment.

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    68%

    27The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them in ranks;

  • Judg 6:4
    68%

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    68%

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  • Hos 8:7
    68%

    7For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal. If it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.