Proverbs 30:27

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locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks;

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  • Exod 10:4-6 : 4 But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow. 5 They will cover the surface of the earth, so that you will be unable to see the ground. They will eat the remainder of what escaped– what is left over for you– from the hail, and they will eat every tree that grows for you from the field. 6 They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been in the land until this day!’” Then Moses turned and went out from Pharaoh.
  • Ps 105:34 : 34 He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.
  • Joel 1:6-7 : 6 For a nation has invaded my land, mighty and without number. Their teeth are lion’s teeth; they have the fangs of a lioness. 7 They have destroyed my vines; they have turned my fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown it aside; the twigs are stripped bare.
  • 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.
  • Rev 9:3-9 : 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. 8 They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle. 10 They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails. 11 They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.
  • Joel 2:7-9 : 7 They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. Each one proceeds on his course; they do not alter their path. 8 They do not jostle one another; each of them marches straight ahead. They burst through the city defenses and do not break ranks. 9 They rush into the city; they scale its walls. They climb up into the houses; they go in through the windows like a thief. 10 The earth quakes before them; the sky reverberates. The sun and the moon grow dark; the stars refuse to shine. 11 The voice of the LORD thunders as he leads his army. Indeed, his warriors are innumerable; Surely his command is carried out! Yes, the day of the LORD is awesome and very terrifying– who can survive it?
  • Joel 1:4 : 4 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!
  • Exod 10:13-15 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 3:15-18
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

    18Concluding Dirge Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria! Your officers are slumbering! Your people are scattered like sheep on the mountains and there is no one to regather them!

  • Prov 30:25-26
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    75%

    25ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer;

    26rock badgers are creatures with little power, but they make their homes in the crags;

  • Prov 6:7
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    7It has no commander, overseer, or ruler,

  • Prov 30:28-31
    4 verses
    74%

    28a lizard you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king.

    29There are three things that are magnificent in their step, four things that move about magnificently:

    30a lion, mightiest of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything;

    31a strutting rooster, a male goat, and a king with his army around him.

  • Exod 10:14
    72%

    14The 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.

  • Ps 105:34
    71%

    34He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.

  • Jer 46:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22Egypt will run away, hissing like a snake, as the enemy comes marching up in force. They will come against her with axes as if they were woodsmen chopping down trees.

    23The population of Egypt is like a vast, impenetrable forest. But I, the LORD, affirm that the enemy will cut them down. For those who chop them down will be more numerous than locusts. They will be too numerous to count.

  • Ps 78:46
    71%

    46He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

  • Deut 28:42
    70%

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

  • Job 30:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

    7They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.

  • Amos 7:1
    69%

    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.)

  • Deut 28:38
    69%

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

  • Exod 10:12
    69%

    12The 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.”

  • Isa 33:4
    68%

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

  • Rev 9:3
    68%

    3Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

  • Joel 1:4
    68%

    4What 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!

  • Amos 3:4
    68%

    4Does a lion roar in the woods if he has not cornered his prey? Does a young lion bellow from his den if he has not caught something?

  • Ps 33:16
    67%

    16No king is delivered by his vast army; a warrior is not saved by his great might.

  • Isa 34:12
    67%

    12Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom and all her officials will disappear.

  • Lev 11:22
    67%

    22These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

  • Job 24:5
    67%

    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

  • Job 28:8
    67%

    8Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

  • Hab 1:14
    67%

    14You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.

  • Exod 10:19
    67%

    19and the LORD turned a very strong west wind, and it picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

  • Joel 1:18
    67%

    18Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

  • Exod 10:4
    67%

    4But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

  • Rev 9:7
    67%

    7Now 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.

  • Job 37:8
    67%

    8The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.

  • Hab 3:17
    67%

    17When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

  • Isa 7:19
    67%

    19All of them will come and make their home in the ravines between the cliffs, and in the crevices of the cliffs, in all the thorn bushes, and in all the watering holes.

  • Deut 32:28
    67%

    28They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.

  • Amos 1:15
    67%

    15Ammon’s king will be deported; he and his officials will be carried off together.” The LORD has spoken!

  • Ps 107:40
    67%

    40He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

  • Ps 148:10
    66%

    10you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

  • Hos 10:3
    66%

    3The Lord Will Punish Israel by Removing Its Kings Very soon they will say,“We have no king since we did not fear the LORD. But what can a king do for us anyway?”

  • Ps 109:23
    66%

    23I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

  • Jer 4:25
    66%

    25I looked and saw that there were no more people, and that all the birds in the sky had flown away.

  • Ps 129:7
    66%

    7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

  • Joel 2:7
    66%

    7They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. Each one proceeds on his course; they do not alter their path.