(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.

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  1. Joel 1:4 Exact identity of these locusts unknown

What the locust(A) swarm has left
    the great locusts have eaten;
what the great locusts have left
    the young locusts have eaten;
what the young locusts have left(B)
    other locusts[a] have eaten.(C)

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  1. Joel 1:4 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.

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.

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  1. Joel 2:25 Exact identity of these locusts unknown

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

“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.

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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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Vision of the Locusts

Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the [a]beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings.

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  1. Amos 7:1 Lit. beginning of the sprouting of

Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me:(A) He was preparing swarms of locusts(B) after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up.

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And Your plunder shall be gathered
Like the gathering of the caterpillar;
As the running to and fro of locusts,
He shall run upon them.

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Your plunder,(A) O nations, is harvested(B) as by young locusts;(C)
    like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.

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46 He also gave their crops to the caterpillar,
And their labor to the (A)locust.

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46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper,(A)
    their produce to the locust.(B)

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Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring (A)locusts into your territory.

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If you refuse(A) to let them go, I will bring locusts(B) into your country tomorrow.

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14 (A)The Lord of hosts has sworn by Himself:
“Surely I will fill you with men, (B)as with locusts,
And they shall lift (C)up a shout against you.”

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14 The Lord Almighty has sworn by himself:(A)
    I will surely fill you with troops, as with a swarm of locusts,(B)
    and they will shout(C) in triumph over you.

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34 (A)He spoke, and locusts came,
Young locusts without number,

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34 He spoke,(A) and the locusts came,(B)
    grasshoppers(C) without number;(D)

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13 (A)When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,

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13 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain,(A) or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,

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38 (A)“You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for (B)the locust shall [a]consume it.

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  1. Deuteronomy 28:38 devour

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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Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, (A)as the scorpions of the earth have power. They were commanded (B)not to harm (C)the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have (D)the seal of God on their foreheads. And [a]they were not given authority to kill them, (E)but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. In those days (F)men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

(G)The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. (H)On their heads were crowns of something like gold, (I)and their faces were like the faces of men.

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  1. Revelation 9:5 The locusts

And out of the smoke locusts(A) came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions(B) of the earth. They were told not to harm(C) the grass of the earth or any plant or tree,(D) but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.(E) They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months.(F) And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion(G) when it strikes. During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.(H)

The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle.(I) On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.(J)

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27 (A)Set up a banner in the land,
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
(B)Prepare the nations against her,
Call (C)the kingdoms together against her:
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a general against her;
Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.

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27 “Lift up a banner(A) in the land!
    Blow the trumpet among the nations!
Prepare the nations for battle against her;
    summon against her these kingdoms:(B)
    Ararat,(C) Minni and Ashkenaz.(D)
Appoint a commander against her;
    send up horses like a swarm of locusts.(E)

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