Cankerworm

How Nave’s arranged it

• Sent as a judgmentJoel 1:4Joel 2:25Nahum 3:15Nahum 3:16

The passages, in Bible order (4)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 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.

   ›Commentary on Joel 1:41 voice

   “That which the palmerworm hath left - Here he begins to open his message, and the words he chooses show that he is going to announce a devastation of the land by locusts, and a famine consequent on their depredations. What the different insects may be which he specifies is not easy to determine. I shall give the words of the original, with their etymology. The palmerworm, גזם gazam, from the same root, to cut short; probably the caterpillar, or some such blight, from its cutting the leaves of the trees into pieces for its nourishment.

   Everything gathered on Joel 1:4→

   Verse page →Original language →

2. Joel 2:25

   I 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.

   ›Commentary on Joel 2:252 voices

   “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten - The order in which these destroyers are named not being the same as before, it is plain that the stress is not on the order, but on the successiveness of the inroads, scourge after scourge.

   “Though, in justice, he distrained upon them, and did them no wrong, yet, in compassion, he makes restitution; as the father of the prodigal, upon his return, made up all he had lost by his sin and folly, and took him into his family, as in his former estate.

   Everything gathered on Joel 2:25→

   Verse page →Original language →

3. Nahum 3:15

   There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!

   ›Commentary on Nahum 3:151 voice

   “There - where thou didst fence thyself, and madest such manifold and toilsome preparation, Shall the fire devour thee. - All is toil within. The fire of God’s wrath falls and consumes at once. Mankind still, with mire and clay, build themselves Babels. “They go into clay,” and become themselves earthly like the mire they steep themselves in. They make themselves strong, as though they thought “that their houses shall continue forever” Psa 49:11, and say, “So, take thine ease eat, drink and be merry” Luk 12:19-

   Everything gathered on Nahum 3:15→

   Verse page →Original language →

4. Nahum 3:16

   You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.

   ›Commentary on Nahum 3:162 voices

   “Thou hast multiplied thy merchants - Like Tyre, this city was a famous resort for merchants; but the multitudes which were there previously to the siege, like the locusts, took the alarm, and fled away.

   “Note, It is rare to find even those that have shared with us in our joys willing to share with us in our griefs too. The canker-worms will continue upon the field while there is any thing to be had, but they are gone when all is gone.

   Everything gathered on Nahum 3:16→

   Verse page →Original language →