15 They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured(A) all that was left after the hail—everything growing in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.

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15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

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15 For they (A)covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they (B)ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. So there remained nothing green on the trees or on the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.

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39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine(A) or gather the grapes, because worms will eat(B) them.(C)

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39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

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39 You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the (A)wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

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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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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.

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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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Footnotes

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

15 There the fire(A) will consume you;
    the sword(B) will cut you down—
    they will devour you like a swarm of locusts.
Multiply like grasshoppers,
    multiply like locusts!(C)

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15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

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15 There the fire will devour you,
The sword will cut you off;
It will eat you up like a (A)locust.

Make yourself many—like the locust!
Make yourself many—like the swarming locusts!

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