Bible Verses About Locusts
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for locusts, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,362 votes, led by Revelation 9:3-10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Locusts
Revelation 9:3-10195 votes
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
2 Chronicles 7:13157 votes
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
Joel 2:25141 votes
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Proverbs 30:27130 votes
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
Joel 1:4-7102 votes
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
Mark 1:698 votes
And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
Leviticus 11:2297 votes
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
Psalms 105:3485 votes
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
Revelation 9:479 votes
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Exodus 10:1-1974 votes
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
Joel 1:470 votes
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
Revelation 9:767 votes
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
Revelation 9:1-1266 votes
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
Revelation 9:7-1066 votes
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
Exodus 10:1564 votes
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Matthew 3:460 votes
And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Revelation 9:357 votes
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
1 Kings 8:3754 votes
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
Isaiah 33:454 votes
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
Jeremiah 46:2352 votes
They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
Exodus 10:1251 votes
And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
Exodus 10:1951 votes
And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
Exodus 10:449 votes
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
Exodus 10:1445 votes
And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
Exodus 10:1342 votes
And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
What does the Bible say about locusts?
Readers most often cite Revelation 9:3-10 on the subject of locusts. Across 3,362 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Chronicles 7:13, Joel 2:25, Proverbs 30:27. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.