The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground.
Parallel translations
- WEB Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
- KJV All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
- BSB Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
- NKJV Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
- NLT Swarms of insects will destroy your trees and crops.
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Locusts will consume their trees and the produce of the ground.
Overview
The devouring insects will strip the land of its fruitfulness. What the people planted and tended will be lost to the swarms. This pervasive destruction reinforces the futility of life apart from God's blessing.
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Cross-references · 2
- Amos 7:1–2Thus the Lord Yahweh showed 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 harvest.
- Deut 28:38–39You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in; for the locust will consume it.
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