Joel 1:4
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.
Note The precise identification of the four kinds of locusts mentioned here is uncertain.
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.
Note That which the palmerworm…: Heb. The residue of the palmerworm
What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- That which the palmer-worm hath left
- Heb. The residue of thepalmer-worm.
- Joel 2:25; Amos 4:9; Exodus 10:4
- the locust eaten
- Exodus 10:12–15; Deuteronomy 28:38, 42; 1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chronicles 6:28; 2 Chronicles 7:13; Psalm 78:46; Psalm 105:34; Amos 7:1; Revelation 9:3–7
- the canker-worm eaten
- Nahum 3:15–17
- the caterpillar
- Isaiah 33:4; Jeremiah 51:14, 27