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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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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15 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כֹּ֤הkohthusH3541 →
הִרְאַ֙נִי֙hir.'A.nihe showed meH7200 →
אֲדֹנָ֣י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136 →
יְהוִ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3069 →
וְהִנֵּה֙ve.hi.Nehand there!H2009 →
יוֹצֵ֣רyo.Tzer[he was] formingH3335 →
גֹּבַ֔יgoyAilocustsH1462 →
בִּתְחִלַּ֖תbit.chi.Latat [the] beginning ofH8462 →
עֲל֣וֹתa.Lot[the] coming up ofH5927 →
הַלָּ֑קֶשׁha.La.keshthe spring-cropH3954 →
וְהִ֨נֵּה־ve.Hi.neh-and there!H2009 →
לֶ֔קֶשׁLe.kesha spring-cropH3954 →
אַחַ֖ר'a.CharafterH310 →
גִּזֵּ֥יgi.Zei[the] mowings ofH1488 →
הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428 →

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Joel 1:4What 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 8:1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.Amos 4:9“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.Joel 2:25I 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.Isaiah 33:4Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.Nahum 3:15–17There 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!Jeremiah 27:2This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.Amos 7:4This 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.Exodus 10:12–16Then 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.”Ezekiel 11:25I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.Jeremiah 24:1After 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 showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.Jeremiah 1:11–16And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.Amos 7:7This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.Zechariah 1:20Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.2 Kings 8:10Elisha answered, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover.’ But the LORD has shown me that in fact he will die.”

About Amos

The Prophet Amos — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Amos — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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