Quotes about Locusts

The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”

“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.

And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.

And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men.

A township where one primitive forest waves above, while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.