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Joel 1:4
Contemporary English Version
Joel 1:4
Contemporary English Version
4 Swarm after swarm of locusts[a]
has attacked our crops,
eating everything in sight.
Footnotes
- 1.4 Swarm … locusts: The Hebrew text lists either four kinds of locusts or locusts in four stages of their development. Locusts are a type of grasshopper that comes in swarms and causes great damage to plant life.
Joel 1:7
Contemporary English Version
Joel 1:7
Contemporary English Version
7 Our grapevines and fig trees
are stripped bare;
only naked branches remain.
Joel 1:12
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Joel 1:12
Contemporary English Version
12 Grapevines have dried up
and so has every tree—
figs and pomegranates,[a]
date palms and apples.
All happiness has faded away.
Footnotes
- 1.12 pomegranates: A bright red fruit that looks like an apple.
Amos 4:9
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Amos 4:9
Contemporary English Version
9 I dried up your grain fields;
your gardens and vineyards
turned brown.
Locusts[a] ate your fig trees
and olive orchards,
but even then you rejected me.
I, the Lord, have spoken!
Footnotes
- 4.9 Locusts: A type of grasshopper that comes in swarms and causes great damage to plant life.
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