Joel 1:4

What the swarming locust has left the great locust has eaten; 1 what the great locust has left the grasshopper has eaten; 1 and what the grasshopper has left the caterpillar has eaten. 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

3Tell your children about it, 1 and let your children tell their children, 1 and their children the next generation. 1

5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! 1 Wail, all you drinkers of wine, 1 because the sweet wine has been cut off from you. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 10:4But if you refuse to let my people go, listen, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your land.

Exodus 10:14The locusts went through all the land of Egypt and infested all parts of it. Never before had there been such a swarm of locusts in the land, and nothing like this will come after it.

Deuteronomy 28:38You will take much seed out into the field, but will gather little seed in, for the locusts will consume it.

1 Kings 8:37Suppose there is famine in the land, or suppose that there is disease, blight or mildew, locusts or caterpillars; or suppose that an enemy attacks the city gates in their land, or that there is any plague or sickness—

2 Chronicles 7:13Suppose that I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send disease among my people,

Psalms 105:34He spoke, and the locusts came, 1 so many locusts. 1

Matthew Henry on Joel 1:2-8

Joel We are altogether uncertain concerning the time when this prophet prophesied; it is probable that it was about the same time Amos prophesied, not for the reason that the rabbin give, "Because Amos begins his prophecy with that wherewith Joel concludes his, The Lord shall roar out of Zion, " but for the reason Dr. Lightfoot gives, "Because he speaks of the same judgments of locusts, and drought, and fire, that Amos laments, which is an intimation that they appeared about the same time, Amos in Israel and Joel… Read the whole commentary →

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