Amos 7:4

New International Version

⁴This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire;^(A) it dried up the great deep and devoured^(B) the land.

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Amos 7:7

New International Version

⁷This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,^[a] with a plumb line^[b] in his hand.

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Footnotes

Amos 7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
Amos 7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain; also in verse 8.

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Joel 1:4

New International Version

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

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Amos 4:9

New International Version

⁹“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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Amos 8:1

New International Version

A Basket of Ripe Fruit

8 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me:^(A) a basket of ripe fruit.

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Nahum 3:15

New International Version

¹⁵There 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)