Amos 7:1 “This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locust…”

Amos 7:1

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

World English Bible

Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest.

American Standard Version

Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto mee, and beholde, he formed grashoppers in the beginning of ye shooting vp of the latter grouth: and loe, it was in the latter grouth after the Kings mowing.

Darby Translation

Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

Young's Literal Translation

Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and lo, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the ascending of the latter growth, and lo, the latter growth [is] after the mowings of the king;

Bible in Basic English

This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king's cutting was done.

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Cross references

“shewed”

Amos 8:1 Amos 7:4 Amos 7:7 Jeremiah 1:11–16 Jeremiah 24:1 Ezekiel 11:25

Amos 8:1 · BSB

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

Amos 7:4 · BSB

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

Amos 7:7 · BSB

This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.

Jeremiah 1:11–16 · BSB

And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.

Jeremiah 24:1 · BSB

After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD…

Ezekiel 11:25 · BSB

I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.

“he”

Joel 1:4 Amos 4:9 Isaiah 33:4 Joel 2:25 Nahum 3:15–17 Exodus 10:12–16

Joel 1:4 · BSB

What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

Amos 4:9 · BSB

“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 33:4 · BSB

Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.

Joel 2:25 · BSB

I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — My great army that I sent against you.

Nahum 3:15–17 · BSB

There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!

Exodus 10:12–16 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

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