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38 (A)You shall bring out much seed to the field, but you will gather in little, for (B)the locust will consume it.

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38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little,(A) because locusts(B) will devour(C) it.

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25 “Then I will pay back to you in full for the years
That the swarming (A)locust has consumed,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust,
My great military force which I sent among you.

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25 “I will repay you for the years the locusts(A) have eaten(B)
    the great locust and the young locust,
    the other locusts and the locust swarm[a]
my great army(C) that I sent among you.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:25 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.

“I (A)struck you with scorching wind and mildew;
And the (B)gnawing locust was devouring
Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees;
Yet you have (C)not returned to Me,” declares Yahweh.

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“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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