Joel 1:4

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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!

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  • Joel 2:25 : 25 I will make up for the years that the‘arbeh-locust consumed your crops– the yeleq-locust, the hasil-locust, and the gazam-locust– my great army that I sent against you.
  • Amos 4:9 : 9 “I destroyed your crops with blight and disease. Locusts kept devouring your orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!
  • Amos 7:1 : 1 Symbolic Visions of Judgment The Sovereign LORD showed me this: I saw him making locusts just as the crops planted late were beginning to sprout.(The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest.)
  • Exod 10:4 : 4 But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
  • Deut 28:38 : 38 The Curse of Reversed Status“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.
  • Ps 78:46 : 46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
  • Ps 105:34 : 34 He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.
  • Isa 33:4 : 4 Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts!
  • Jer 51:14 : 14 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has solemnly sworn,‘I will fill your land with enemy soldiers. They will swarm over it like locusts. They will raise up shouts of victory over it.’
  • Jer 51:27 : 27 “Raise up battle flags throughout the lands. Sound the trumpets calling the nations to do battle. Prepare the nations to do battle against Babylonia. Call for these kingdoms to attack her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander to lead the attack. Send horses against her like a swarm of locusts.
  • Deut 28:42 : 42 Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.
  • 1 Kgs 8:37 : 37 “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.
  • 2 Chr 6:28 : 28 “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.
  • 2 Chr 7:13 : 13 When I close up the sky so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, or send a plague among my people,
  • Exod 10:12-15 : 12 The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left.” 13 So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts! 14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory of Egypt. It was very severe; there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again. 15 They covered the surface of all the ground, so that the ground became dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the ground and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on the trees or on anything that grew in the fields throughout the whole land of Egypt.
  • Nah 3:15-17 : 15 There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would.The Assyrian Defenders Will Flee Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust! 16 Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away. 17 Your courtiers are like locusts, your officials are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they fly away; and no one knows where they are.
  • Rev 9:3-7 : 3 Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to damage the grass of the earth, or any green plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their forehead. 5 The locusts were not given permission to kill them, but only to torture them for five months, and their torture was like that of a scorpion when it stings a person. 6 In those days people will seek death, but will not be able to find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them. 7 Now the locusts looked like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were something like crowns similar to gold, and their faces looked like men’s faces.

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  • Joel 2:25
    79%

    25I will make up for the years that the‘arbeh-locust consumed your crops– the yeleq-locust, the hasil-locust, and the gazam-locust– my great army that I sent against you.

  • Joel 1:3
    78%

    3Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.

  • Nah 3:15-17
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    15There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would.The Assyrian Defenders Will Flee Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!

    16Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.

    17Your courtiers are like locusts, your officials are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they fly away; and no one knows where they are.

  • Amos 4:9
    77%

    9“I destroyed your crops with blight and disease. Locusts kept devouring your orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!

  • Deut 28:42
    76%

    42Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.

  • Ps 78:46
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    46He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

  • Ps 105:34-35
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    74%

    34He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.

    35They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields.

  • Amos 7:1
    73%

    1Symbolic Visions of Judgment The Sovereign LORD showed me this: I saw him making locusts just as the crops planted late were beginning to sprout.(The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest.)

  • Isa 33:4
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    4Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts!

  • Deut 28:38-39
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    38The Curse of Reversed Status“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

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    17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

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    5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.

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    13I will take away their harvests, says the LORD. There will be no grapes on their vines. There will be no figs on their fig trees. Even the leaves on their trees will wither. The crops that I gave them will be taken away.’”

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