OLD TESTAMENT

Joel 2:25

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25

I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.

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Verse 25. Host. God could have hurled his thunderbolts, or mountains, to destroy all mankind; but he chooses to shew their insignificance, ( Calmet.) by employing the vilest insects, which they cannot withstand. Saint Jerome

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