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Bible Verses About The Locust: Of destructive enemies

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Verses on Of destructive enemies

  1. a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick fog; a great and mighty horde is spreading like blackness over the mountains. There has never been anything like it, nor will there ever be again, not even after the years of many generations.

  2. Ahead of them a fire devours, behind them a flame consumes; ahead the land is like Gan-'Eden, behind them a desert waste. From them there is no escape.

  3. They look like horses, and like cavalry they charge.

  4. With a rumble like that of chariots they leap over the mountaintops, like crackling flames devouring stubble, like a mighty horde in battle array.

  5. At their presence the peoples writhe in anguish, every face is drained of color.

  6. Like warriors they charge, they scale the wall like soldiers. Each one keeps to his own course, without getting in the other's way.

  7. They don't jostle each other, but stay on their own paths; they burst through defenses unharmed, without even breaking rank.

  8. They rush into the city, they run along the wall, they climb up into the houses, entering like a thief through the windows.