Proverbs 30:27 Cross References - BBE

²⁷ The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands;

⁴ For if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will send locusts into your land: ⁵ And the face of the earth will be covered with them, so that you will not be able to see the earth: and they will be the destruction of everything which up to now has not been damaged, everything which was not crushed by the ice-storm, and every tree still living in your fields. ⁶ And your houses will be full of them, and the houses of your servants and of all the Egyptians; it will be worse than anything your fathers have seen or their fathers, from the day when they were living on the earth till this day. And so he went out from Pharaoh.

¹³ And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind. ¹⁴ And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will be again. ¹⁵ For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.

³⁴ At his word the locusts came, and young locusts more than might be numbered,

⁴ 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.

⁶ For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion. ⁷ By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

⁷ They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken. ⁸ No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken. ⁹ They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief. ¹⁰ The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining: ¹¹ And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?

²⁵ I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.

³ And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions. ⁴ And they were ordered to do no damage to the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only to such men as have not the mark of God on their brows. ⁵ And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion. ⁶ And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them. ⁷ And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. ⁸ And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. ⁹ And they had breastplates like iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of carriages, like an army of horses rushing to the fight. ¹⁰ And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months. ¹¹ They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.