¹¹ I will prevent pests from devouring^(A) your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,^(B)” says the Lord Almighty.

¹⁷ I struck all the work of your hands^(A) with blight,^(B) mildew and hail,^(C) yet you did not return^(D) to me,’ declares the Lord.^(E)

Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line

7 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. ² When they had stripped the land clean,^(C) I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive?^(D) He is so small!^(E)”

³ So the Lord relented.^(F)

“This will not happen,” the Lord said.^(G)

¹⁴ then I will send rain^(A) on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains,^(B) so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil.

¹² “The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit,^(A) the ground will produce its crops,^(B) and the heavens will drop their dew.^(C) I will give all these things as an inheritance^(D) to the remnant of this people.^(E)