Proverbs 30:27

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;”

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BSBPD

“the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of them by bands;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“A king there is not to the locust, And it goeth out--each one shouting,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Proverbs 30:27 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 10:4But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
  2. Exodus 10:13So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
  3. Exodus 10:14The locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many locusts, and never again will there be.
  4. Exodus 10:15They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
  5. Psalms 105:34He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
  6. Joel 1:4What 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.
  7. Joel 1:6For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.
  8. Joel 2:7They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.
  9. Joel 2:8They do not jostle one another; each proceeds in his path. They burst through the defenses, never breaking ranks.
  10. Joel 2:25I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust— My great army that I sent against you.
  11. Revelation 9:3And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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