(A)What the chewing [a]locust left, the (B)swarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.

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  1. Joel 1:4 Exact identity of these locusts unknown

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)

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

He has (A)laid waste My vine,
And [a]ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.

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  1. Joel 1:7 Or splintered

It has laid waste(A) my vines
    and ruined my fig trees.(B)
It has stripped off their bark
    and thrown it away,
    leaving their branches white.

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Vision of the Locusts

Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the [a]beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings.

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  1. Amos 7:1 Lit. beginning of the sprouting of

Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me:(A) He was preparing swarms of locusts(B) after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up.

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And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said:

“O Lord God, forgive, I pray!
(A)Oh,[a] that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”

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  1. Amos 7:2 Or How shall Jacob stand

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

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