39 Bible Verses about bugs
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and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority is to injure men five months;
Dead flies cause a perfumer's perfume To send forth a stink; The precious by reason of wisdom -- By reason of honour -- a little folly!
any thing going on the belly, and any going on four, unto every multiplier of feet, to every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth -- ye do not eat them, for they are an abomination;
And Jehovah doth so, and the grievous beetle entereth the house of Pharaoh, and the house of his servants, and in all the land of Egypt the land is corrupted from the presence of the beetle.
Every teeming creature which is flying, which is going on four -- an abomination it is to you.
for, if thou art not sending My people away, lo, I am sending against thee, and against thy servants, and against thy people, and against thy houses, the beetle, and the houses of the Egyptians have been full of the beetle, and also the ground on which they are.
I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field is with Me.
and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as those of lions,
And I have pushed for you against the consumer, And He doth not destroy to you the fruit of the ground, Nor miscarry to you doth the vine in the field, Said Jehovah of Hosts.
and every teeming thing which is flying, unclean it is to you; they are not eaten;
and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment is as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;
The ants are a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,
these of them ye do eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the beetle after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind;
And the likenesses of the locusts are like to horses made ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men,
and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings is as the noise of chariots of many horses running to battle;
and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.
And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority,
And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that it is good.
And God maketh the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, and God seeth that it is good.
He sendeth among them the beetle, and it consumeth them, And the frog, and it destroyeth them,
And Jehovah God appointeth a gourd, and causeth it to come up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head, to give deliverance to him from his affliction, and Jonah rejoiceth because of the gourd with great joy.
and there we saw the Nephilim, sons of Anak, of the Nephilim; and we are in our own eyes as grasshoppers; and so we were in their eyes.'
And Peter said, 'Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'
but the Pharisees having heard, said, 'This one doth not cast out demons, except by Beelzeboul, ruler of the demons.'
'And I have sent the hornet before thee, and it hath cast out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee;
And God appointeth a worm at the going up of the dawn on the morrow, and it smiteth the gourd, and it drieth up.
Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee, an affirmation of Jehovah, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
After whom hath the king of Israel come out? after whom art thou pursuing? -- after a dead dog! after one flea!
'Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.
and Jehovah doth according to the word of Moses, and turneth aside the beetle from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people -- there hath not been left one;
And Moses stretcheth out his rod against the land of Egypt, and Jehovah hath led an east wind over the land all that day, and all the night; the morning hath been, and the east wind hath lifted up the locust.
'And by these ye are made unclean, any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean till the evening;