Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
Amos 7:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Thus the Lord GOD showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest. 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 the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
The LORD shown me, and behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nevukhadnetzar 1 king of Bavel had carried away captive Yekhonyah the son of Yehoiakim, king of Yehudah, and the princes of Yehudah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Yerushalayim, and had brought them to Bavel.
Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shown me.
What the swarming arbeh has left, the great arbeh has eaten. What the great arbeh has left, the khagav has eaten. What the khagav has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
I will restore to you the years that the swarming arbeh has eaten, the great arbeh, the khagav, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.
*I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming arbeh devoured: yet you haven't returned to me,* says the LORD.
Thus the Lord GOD showed me and behold, the Lord GOD called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,* says the LORD of Armies.