Your spoil will be gathered as locusts are gathered; people will swarm over it like an infestation of locusts.
Amos 7:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout #– #after the cutting of the king’s hay. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THUS THE Lord God showed me [Amos], and behold, He formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the second crop, and behold, it was the second crop after the king's mowings. American Standard Version (1901) Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings. Common English Bible This is what the LORD God showed me: The LORD God was forming locusts at the time the late grass began to sprout. (It was the late grass after the king’s harvest.) Catholic Public Domain Version These things the Lord God has revealed to me. And behold, the locust was formed at the beginning of the germination during the latter rains, and behold, the latter rains came after the thundering of the king. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the locust was formed in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter rain, and lo, it was the latter rain after the king's mowing. |
Your spoil will be gathered as locusts are gathered; people will swarm over it like an infestation of locusts.
After King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, the officials of Judah, and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the Lord.
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.
I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust ate, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust – my great army that I sent against you.
I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured your many gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees, yet you did not return to me. This is the Lord’s declaration.
The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgement by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
He showed me this: The Lord was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in his hand.
I will rebuke the devourer , for you, so that it will not ruin the produce of your land and your vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,’ says the Lord of Armies.