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The Vision of Locusts

This is what the Lord God showed me: Look! He was forming locust swarms as the latter plantings were just beginning to sprout. Indeed, the king had just taken his first fruit tax.[a] And so it came about that when the swarm[b] had finished eating the grass of the land, I was saying,

“Lord God, forgive—please!
    How will Jacob stand, since he is small?”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:1 So MT; LXX reads the locusts have one king, Gog.
  2. Amos 7:2 The Heb. lacks the swarm