34 He spoke,(A) and the locusts came,(B)
    grasshoppers(C) without number;(D)
35 they ate up every green thing in their land,
    ate up the produce of their soil.

Read full chapter

What the locust(A) swarm has left
    the great locusts have eaten;
what the great locusts have left
    the young locusts have eaten;
what the young locusts have left(B)
    other locusts[a] have eaten.(C)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:4 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.

When they had stripped the land clean,(A) I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive?(B) He is so small!(C)

Read full chapter

11 I will prevent pests from devouring(A) your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,(B)” says the Lord Almighty.

Read full chapter

Bible Gateway Recommends