But if you refuse to let My people go, then tomorrow I will bring locusts(A) into your territory.

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If you refuse(A) to let them go, I will bring locusts(B) into your country tomorrow.

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Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:

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25 I will repay you for the years
that the swarming locust ate,(A)
the young locust, the destroying locust,
and the devouring locust—
My great army that I sent against you.

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25 “I will repay you for the years the locusts(A) have eaten(B)
    the great locust and the young locust,
    the other locusts and the locust swarm[a]
my great army(C) that I sent among you.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:25 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.

25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

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I struck you with blight and mildew;(A)
the locust devoured(B)
your many gardens and vineyards,
your fig trees and olive trees,(C)
yet you did not return to Me.(D)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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“Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,
    destroying them with blight and mildew.(A)
Locusts(B) devoured your fig and olive trees,(C)
    yet you have not returned(D) to me,”
declares the Lord.

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I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

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