11 I will rebuke (A)the devourer[a] for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 3:11 Probably a name for some crop-destroying pest or pests

17 (A)I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, (B)yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.

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(A)“I struck you with blight and mildew;
    your many gardens and your vineyards,
    your fig trees and your olive trees (B)the locust devoured;
(C)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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Warning Visions

(A)This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, (B)he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,

“O Lord God, please forgive!
    (C)How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”
(D)The Lord relented concerning this:
    “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

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22 Fear not, (A)you beasts of the field,
    for (B)the pastures of the wilderness are green;
(C)the tree bears its fruit;
    the fig tree and (D)vine give their full yield.

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What (A)the cutting locust left,
    (B)the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
    (C)the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
    (D)the destroying locust has eaten.

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14 (A)he[a] will give the rain for your land in its season, (B)the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 11:14 Samaritan, Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew I; also verse 15

12 (A)For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, (B)and the heavens shall give their dew. (C)And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

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Habakkuk Rejoices in the Lord

17 Though the fig tree should not blossom,
    nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
    and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
    and there be no herd in the stalls,

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20 “I will remove the northerner far from you,
    and drive him into a parched and desolate land,
his vanguard[a] into (A)the eastern sea,
    and his rear guard[b] into (B)the western sea;
(C)the stench and foul smell of him will rise,
    for he has done great things.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:20 Hebrew face
  2. Joel 2:20 Hebrew his end

12 The vine dries up;
    (A)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
    all the trees of the field are dried up,
and (B)gladness dries up
    from the children of man.

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13 When I would gather them, declares the Lord,
    there are (A)no grapes on the vine,
    (B)nor figs on the fig tree;
(C)even the leaves are withered,
    and what I gave them has passed away from them.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:13 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

It has laid waste my vine
    and splintered my (A)fig tree;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
    their branches are made white.

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