Insects

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Judges 6:5 OT

  For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.

• Job 39:20 OT

  Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

• Deuteronomy 7:20 OT

  Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

• Exodus 10:12 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.”

• Exodus 10:13 OT

  Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

• Exodus 8:16 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’ ”

• Psalms 105:31 OT

  He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.

• Exodus 16:20 OT

  Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.

• Job 4:19 OT

  How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

• Job 27:18 OT

  He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

• Isaiah 50:9 OT

  Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

• Amos 4:9 OT

  “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

• Job 8:14 OT

  Whose confidence will break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.

• Proverbs 30:28 OT

  You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.

• Psalms 104:25 OT

  There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

• Psalms 104:27 OT

  These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

• Psalms 145:9 OT

  Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

• Psalms 145:15 OT

  The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.