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Amos 7:1

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.

2 And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

3 So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.

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BSB
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.
KJV
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.
WEB
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: 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.
ASV
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.
DARBY
Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto 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 mowings.
BLB
Thus the Lord YHWH showed me: And behold, he is forming locusts at the beginning of the coming up of the latter growth, and behold, the late crop after the mowings of the king.
ÅB
Dette syn lot Herren, Israels Gud, meg se: Det var en som skapte gresshopper, da håen begynte å skyte opp; det var håen etter kongens slått.
OTB
Dette er hva Herren Gud viste meg: Han dannet en sverm av gresshopper like etter kongens innhøsting og mens de sene avlingene spirte.
B1930
Dette syn lot Herren, Israels Gud, mig se: Det var en som skapte gresshopper, da håen begynte å skyte op; det var håen efter kongens slått.

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  • Joel 1:4

    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.

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  • Amos 8:1

    This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

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  • Nahum 3:15–17

    There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!

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  • Isaiah 33:4

    Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.

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  • Joel 2:25

    I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — My great army that I sent against you.

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  • Amos 4:9

    “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

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  • Jeremiah 1:11–16

    And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.

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  • Ezekiel 11:25

    I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.

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