For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.
⛓ Read Joel 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Joel describes the locust nation with 'teeth of a lion' (Heb. shinnei 'aryeh; LXX odontes leontos), the exact image John gives the locusts in 9:8 ('their teeth were like those of lions'). Verbal and imagistic correspondence; reinforces dependence on Joel's locust apocalypse.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The cavalry's lion-headed mouths ('horses' heads resembled lions' heads,' 9:17) reprise the lion-toothed locust nation of Joel 1:6 (already echoed in 9:8), binding the sixth-trumpet army to the fifth-trumpet locusts and to Joel's invading host. Lion-mouth imagery of devouring judgment.
Medium confidence