And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
Parallel translations
- WEB and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
- BSB After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.
- 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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Cross-references · 6
- Hos 8:7For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
- Gen 41:6And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
- Hos 9:16Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
- Hos 13:15Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
- 2 Kgs 19:26Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
- Ps 129:6–7Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
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