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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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)
Deuteronomy 28:38-39
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38 “You shall carry much seed into the field but shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.(A) 39 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.
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