⁶ “You have ^(A)sown much, and bring in little;
You eat, but do not have enough;
You drink, but you are not filled with drink;
You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm;
And ^(B)he who earns wages,
Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”

¹⁵ “You shall ^(A)sow, but not reap;
You shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;
And make sweet wine, but not drink wine.

^4 (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.

⁹ “I^(A) blasted you with blight and mildew.
When your gardens increased,
Your vineyards,
Your fig trees,
And your olive trees,
^(B)The locust devoured them;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.

²⁵ “So I will restore to you the years ^(A)that the swarming ^[a]locust has eaten,
The crawling locust,
The consuming locust,
And the chewing locust,
My great army which I sent among you.

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

³ A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like ^(A)the Garden of Eden before them,
^(B)And behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them.