Bible verses about "locusts" | BBE

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have made his heart and the hearts of his servants hard, so that I may let my signs be seen among them: ² And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord. ³ Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship. 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. ⁷ And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to Egypt's danger? ⁸ Then Moses and Aaron came in again before Pharaoh: and he said to them, Go and give worship to the Lord your God: but which of you are going? ⁹ And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for we are to keep a feast to the Lord. ¹⁰ And he said to them, May the Lord be with you, if I will let you and your little ones go! take care, for your purpose clearly is evil. ¹¹ Not so; but let your males go and give worship to the Lord, as your desire is. This he said, driving them out from before him. ¹² And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm. 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. ¹⁶ Then Pharaoh quickly sent for Moses and Aaron, and said, I have done evil against the Lord your God and against you. ¹⁷ Let me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only, and make prayer to the Lord your God that he will take away from me this death only. ¹⁸ So he went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord. ¹⁹ And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.

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,

¹ And at the sounding of the fifth angel I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the great deep. ² And he made the great deep open and a smoke went up from it, like the smoke of a great oven; and the sun and the air were made dark because of the smoke. 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. ¹² The first Trouble is past: see, there are still two Troubles to come.

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. ⁵ Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths. 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.

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.

⁶ And John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.

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.

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.

²² Such as all the different sorts of locust.

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

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.