(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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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:4 Exact identity of these locusts unknown

He has (A)laid waste My vine,
And [a]ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.

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  1. Joel 1:7 Or splintered

Vision of the Locusts

Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the [a]beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings.

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  1. Amos 7:1 Lit. beginning of the sprouting of

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

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