Sentences with phrase «rockymountain locusts»

FEB. 3: Visits Jon Stewart's The Daily Show on Comedy Central and jokes he plans to send a plague of locusts to New York's ritzy Upper East Side, whose residents complained of slow snow removal.

Poilievre opens by asking why Morneau is hellbent on unleashing a plague of locusts on Canadian pizza parlour owners.

Deutsche Boerse's Chief Executive Werner Seifert once called TCI's Chris Hohn the leader of a swarm of locusts in a book about the exchange's battle with the hedge fund.

Everyone knows one eats honey and locusts when one goes to the desert for a «purge».

That's a good point, our government is racking up debt faster than locust on a wheat field, and we're arguing about gay - marriage, race and still abortion issues.

«Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing, that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; (including) the locust... the beetle... and the grasshopper after his kind» (Leviticus 11:21,22).

Thus in English we call an animal of the locust kind a grasshopper; the French name of which is souterelle, from the verb sauter, to leap» — Parkhurst.

The locust — ארבה arbeh, either from ארב arab, to lie in wait or in ambush, because often immense flights of them suddenly alight upon the fields, vineyards, etc., and destroy all the produce of the earth; or from רבה rabah, he multiplied, because of their prodigious swarms.

See the notes on Exodus 10:4, and the description of ten kinds of locusts in Bochart, vol.

Lev 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon [all] four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; Lev 11:22 [Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

They have been eaten in Africa, Greece, Syria, Persia, and throughout Asia; and whole tribes seem to have lived on them, and were hence called acridophagoi, or locust - eaters by the Greeks.

Locusts adorned with tiny crowns, the face of a man, the hair of a woman, the mouth of a lion and the stinger of a scorpion will come to wreak vengeance?

The Book of Relevation also talks about armor - clad locusts with teh face of a man, the hair of a woman, the mouth of a lion and the tail of scorpion wearing tiny little crowns.

Revelations predicts «locusts» with human faces, women's hair, lions» teeth, and scorpions» tails, also, horses with the heads of lions and tails like serpents with heads.

The portraits in the Gospels are little different, Jesus is heralded by the strange figure of John the Baptizer, crying in the wilderness, dressed in camel's skin and eating locusts and wild honey.

Joel, who saw in an army of locusts a reflection of the judgment of God, also saw healing: «Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning... I will return to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten.»

«Has such a thing [as a plague of locusts wrought by God] happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors?»

Its morally complex stories are rife with blockbuster - ready special effects like locust plagues, apocalyptic floods and talking donkeys.

In Richard Snowden's The American Revolution; Written in the Style of Ancient History, Congress became the «great Sanhedrin,» Lord North's counsel was similar to that of Ahitophel, and the British descended on America «like the locusts of Egypt» devouring «every goodly thing.»

2 Chronicles 7:13 - 14 - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Editorials ominously predict that the «innovators» are about to be overwhelmed by a locust blight of «takers.»

But I can never remember whether the dragon comes before or after the locust that wears armor and a tiny little crown and has the face of a man, the hair of a woman, the mouth of a lion and the tail of a scorpion.

And under the Rule of Benedict, I am delighted to report that eating locusts will remain optional.

During the «rapture,» true believers will be lifted out of their clothes and transported to heaven, where, seated on the right hand of God, they will watch their political and religious opponents suffer plagues of boils, sores, locusts, and frogs during the seven years of «tribulation» that will follow.

I smite like no one else, I'll show you evil, quakes, tornado, hurricanes, massive polar shifts, hail, locusts, disease, famine like no one can you puny pets.

If every bit of the bible is true then how many legs to locusts and grasshoppers have?

Swarms of armour clad locusts with the face of a man, the hair of a woman, the mouth of a lion and the tail of a scorpion with bring stingy, paralyzing pain to all!

The locusts he ate were the insects, not the seeds of the tree.

But they need help to turn back the locusts.

Christians can choose from two lifestyles: the simple life à la John the Baptist, who lived on locusts and wild honey in the desert, and the fuller life of our Lord, who prayed all night and worked all day, but who ate and drank with others.

He lived in the desert for years and wore camel skin while snackin» on locusts.

He came dressed in camels hair, eating locust and wild honey.

These appear to have no direct connection with one another (although 2:3 a may reflect an effort to relate them), since the famine is caused not by locusts but by drought (see 1:18 - 20).

The locust plague is one of a series of natural disasters which, for Joel, are sure signs of the Day of Yahweh.

Two overwhelming natural disasters (accompanied by lesser calamities) are described — a plague of locusts and a severe famine.

The fifth trumpet brings a plague of locusts, reminiscent of Joel (9:1 - 11).

Just like people in the wilderness wearing camel hair coats and eating locusts with a side of honey disrupt us, people who think Jesus actually meant all that stuff he said don't fit in anywhere.

That stern prophet (John the Baptist) who went out into the desert and lived on locusts knew how, in relation to his contemporaries, he ought to express this decisively: that it is not the truth that is in need of men, but men who are in need of the truth.

The prophet Joel is mainly concerned with a plague of locusts, but in his third chapter he pictures the final war:

Now tell me about the armour clad locusts with the face of a man, the hair of a woman, the mouth of a lion and the tail of a scorpion.

He thought we were all a bunch of locusts; but now he shall indeed find out the shoe is on the other foot: the foot of My Father Jesus

So ran the argument and appeal of Zephaniah when the Scythians came, of Joel when the locusts came, of Jeremiah when the Chaldeans came.

He will give you wisdom and revelation and He will restore those years the locust have eaten.

We had pondered the idea of grasshopper cookies for the locusts, but instead the Visiting Graduate Student made haystacks.

Still, you start murmuring, «Locusts and wild honey... locusts and wild honey...,» and sooner or later the Holy Spirit will strike you with inspiration.

We've had John the Baptist eating locusts and wild honey, we can handle that.

They traveled to this locust - eating, camel - hair - wearing prophet not because he knew the difference between lowercase and uppercase truth, but because they recognized the truth in his words.

These are the ant, the coney, the locust and the spider.

But tell you what — if an entomologist finds the locust from Revelation that wears armor and a tiny little crown and has the face of a man, the hair of a woman, the mouth of a lion and the tail of a scorpion, I'll convert.

It is not because he ate locust and honey and wore camel hair either.