38 (A)You will bring out a great amount of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because (B)the locust will devour 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 compensate you for the years
That the [a]swarming (A)locust has eaten,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust—
My great army which I sent among you.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:25 Or migratory

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;
The (B)caterpillar was devouring
Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees;
Yet you have (C)not returned to Me,” declares 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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