After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.
Parallel translations
- WEB and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
- KJV And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
- NKJV Then behold, seven heads, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprang up after them.
- NASB and behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind sprouted up after them;
- NLT Then seven more heads of grain appeared, but these were blighted, shriveled, and withered by the east wind.
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Quick answer
He then describes seven withered, thin heads of grain, blasted by the east wind.
Overview
The blighted grain mirrors the thin cattle, picturing the coming famine. The destructive east wind was a familiar threat to crops in the region. The parallel imagery underscores that scarcity will follow plenty.
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- Hos 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
- Gen 41:6After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.
- Hos 9:16Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.
- Hos 13:15Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
- 2 Kgs 19:26Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
- Ps 129:6–7May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
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