Joel 1:4

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.

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  • Joel 2:25 : 25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.
  • Amos 4:9 : 9 "I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
  • Amos 7:1 : 1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest.
  • Exod 10:4 : 4 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
  • Deut 28:38 : 38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
  • Ps 78:46 : 46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
  • Ps 105:34 : 34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,
  • Isa 33:4 : 4 Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
  • Jer 51:14 : 14 Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you.
  • Jer 51:27 : 27 Set up a standard 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 marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm.
  • Deut 28:42 : 42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.
  • 1 Kgs 8:37 : 37 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or 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, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;
  • 2 Chr 7:13 : 13 "If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
  • Exod 10:12-15 : 12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left." 13 Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither 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 which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
  • Nah 3:15-17 : 15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust. 16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away. 17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
  • Rev 9:3-7 : 3 Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don't have God's seal on their foreheads. 5 They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person. 6 In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them. 7 The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people's faces.

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  • Joel 2:25
    79%

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

  • Joel 1:3
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    3 Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

  • Nah 3:15-17
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    15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

    16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

    17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

  • Amos 4:9
    77%

    9 "I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.

  • Deut 28:42
    76%

    42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.

  • Ps 78:46
    76%

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

  • Ps 105:34-35
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    74%

    34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,

    35 ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground.

  • Amos 7:1
    73%

    1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest.

  • Isa 33:4
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    4 Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

  • Deut 28:38-39
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    73%

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

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

  • Jer 5:17
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    17 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 beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.

  • Joel 1:17
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    17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

  • Joel 1:5
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    5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Joel 1:11-12
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    11 Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

    12 The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

  • Exod 10:5
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    5 and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.

  • Lev 11:22
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    22 Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.

  • Jer 51:14
    70%

    14 Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you.

  • Exod 10:14-15
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    14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither 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 which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

  • Joel 1:7
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    7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

  • Hab 3:17
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    17 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

  • Jer 46:23
    70%

    23 They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

  • Joel 2:3
    70%

    3 A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

  • Hos 4:3
    69%

    3 Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.

  • Deut 28:51
    69%

    51 and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

  • Exod 10:12
    69%

    12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left."

  • Obad 1:5
    69%

    5 "If thieves came to you, if robbers by night--oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?

  • Jer 8:13
    69%

    13 I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: no grapes shall be on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.

  • Jer 31:29
    69%

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

  • Isa 1:7
    69%

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

  • Jonah 4:7
    68%

    7 But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

  • Isa 17:6
    68%

    6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," says Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • Isa 24:6
    68%

    6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

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    13 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

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

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    5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

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    10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

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  • Hos 8:7
    68%

    7 For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.