Amos 4:9
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9 I struck you with blight and mildew;
I laid waste[a] your gardens and your vineyards;
the locust devoured your fig trees and your olive trees;
yet you did not return to me,
says the Lord.(A)
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- 4.9 Cn: Heb the multitude of
Haggai 2:17
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17 I struck you and every work of your hands with blight and mildew and hail, yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:22
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22 The Lord will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought,[a] and with blight and mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.(A)
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- 28.22 Gk Syr Tg: MT the sword
Joel 1:4
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4 What the cutting locust left,
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust left,
the hopping locust has eaten;
and what the hopping locust left,
the destroying locust has eaten.(A)
Amos 7:1-2
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Locusts, Fire, and a Plumb Line
7 This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings).(A) 2 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
“O Lord God, forgive, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”(B)
Amos 4:6
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Israel Rejects Correction
6 I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities
and lack of bread in all your places;
yet you did not return to me,
says the Lord.(A)
Amos 4:8
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8 so two or three towns wandered to one town
to drink water and were not satisfied;
yet you did not return to me,
says the Lord.(A)
Joel 2:25
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25 I will repay you for the years
that the swarming locust has eaten,
the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,
my great army that I sent against you.(A)
Joel 1:7
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7 It has laid waste my vines
and splintered my fig trees;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
their branches have turned white.(A)
Jeremiah 5:3
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3 O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth?
You have struck them,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to turn back.(A)
Jeremiah 3:10
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10 Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart but only in pretense, says the Lord.(A)
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Isaiah 42:24-25
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24 Who gave up Jacob to the spoiler
and Israel to the robbers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom they sinned,[a]
in whose ways they would not walk,
and whose law they would not obey?(A)
25 So he poured upon him the heat of his anger
and the fury of war;
it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand;
it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.(B)
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- 42.24 Gk Tg: Heb we sinned
Isaiah 1:5
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5 Why do you seek further beatings?
Why do you continue to rebel?
The whole head is injured,
and the whole heart faint.(A)
Job 36:8-13
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8 And if they are bound in fetters
and caught in the cords of affliction,
9 then he declares to them their work
and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.(A)
10 He opens their ears to instruction
and commands that they return from iniquity.(B)
11 If they listen and serve him,
they complete their days in prosperity
and their years in pleasantness.(C)
12 But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword
and die without knowledge.(D)
13 “The godless in heart cherish anger;
they do not cry for help when he binds them.(E)
2 Chronicles 6:28
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28 “If there is famine in the land, if there is plague, blight, mildew, locust, or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in any of the settlements of the lands; whatever suffering, whatever sickness there is;(A)
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1 Kings 8:37
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37 “If there is famine in the land, if there is plague, blight, mildew, locust, or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in any[a] of their cities; whatever suffering, whatever sickness there is;(A)
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- 8.37 Gk Syr: Heb in the land
Deuteronomy 28:42
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42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground the cicada shall take over.(A)
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