and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
- BSB The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.
- NKJV So the plenty will not be known in the land because of the famine following, for it will be very severe.
- NASB So the abundance will be unknown in the land because of that subsequent famine; for it will be very severe.
- NLT This famine will be so severe that even the memory of the good years will be erased.
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- Isa 24:20The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.
- 1 Sam 5:6But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.
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