Locust, grasshopper, and swarming-insect imagery uses locusts, grasshoppers, caterpillars, and devouring swarms to describe plague, frailty, overwhelming numbers, disciplined judgment, ordered action, and restoration after loss.
Locust, grasshopper, and swarming-insect imagery uses locusts, grasshoppers, caterpillars, and devouring swarms to describe plague, frailty, overwhelming numbers, disciplined judgment, ordered action, and restoration after loss.
A swarm-and-devouring motif in which insects signify covenant plague, destructive abundance, human smallness, disciplined order without visible king, invading multitude, or the LORD’s ability to restore what devouring years consumed.
These examples show how Locust, Grasshopper, and Swarming-Insect Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
I will bring the locusts into thy coast
Locusts become covenant-plague imagery against Pharaoh’s resistance.
they covered the face of the whole earth
The locust swarm images overwhelming devouring judgment.
we were in our own sight as grasshoppers
Grasshopper imagery expresses Israel’s fear and self-smallness before giants.
they came as grasshoppers for multitude
Swarming insects image the overwhelming numbers of oppressors.
if there be locust, or if there be caterpiller
Locust plague belongs to covenant crisis calling for prayer.
the locusts came, and caterpillers
Locusts rehearse the LORD’s plague-judgments in Egypt.
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth
Locust order becomes wisdom from a small creature.
the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers
Grasshoppers image human smallness before the enthroned Creator.
the years that the locust hath eaten
Locust loss becomes the background for promised restoration.
there came out of the smoke locusts
Apocalyptic locusts image terrifying judgment released from the abyss.
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