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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38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

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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

34 He spoke,(A) and the locusts came,(B)
    grasshoppers(C) without number;(D)
35 they ate up every green thing in their land,
    ate up the produce of their soil.

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34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,

35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

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34 (A)He spoke, and locusts came,
Young locusts without number,
35 And ate up all the vegetation in their land,
And devoured the fruit of their ground.

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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.

That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

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(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

When they had stripped the land clean,(A) I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive?(B) He is so small!(C)

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And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

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And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said:

“O Lord God, forgive, I pray!
(A)Oh,[a] that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”

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  1. Amos 7:2 Or How shall Jacob stand

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.

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11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.

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11 “And I will rebuke (A)the devourer for your sakes,
So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,
Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,”
Says the Lord of hosts;

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