Locust

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Authorized as food

• Leviticus 11:22 Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.

Used as food

• Matthew 3:4 John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
• Mark 1:6 John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

Plague of

• Exodus 10:1–19 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among them, and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs a…
• Psalm 105:34–35 He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number. They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.

Devastation by

• Deuteronomy 28:38 You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
• 1 Kings 8:37 When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
• 2 Chronicles 7:13 If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,
• Isaiah 33:4 Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.
• Joel 1:4–7 What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten. Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it…
• Revelation 9:7–10 And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads; and their faces were like the faces of men. They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions. They also had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings…

Sun obscured by

• Joel 2:2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
• Joel 2:10 Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.

Instincts of

• Proverbs 30:27 the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;

In A. V. often inaccurately translated "grasshopper," as in

• Judges 6:5 For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
• Judges 7:12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
• Job 39:20 Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?
• Jeremiah 46:23 They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.

See Grasshopper

Figurative

• Jeremiah 46:23 They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.

Symbolical

• Revelation 9:3–10 And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. The locusts were not given power to ki…