Amos 7:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king's cutting was done.

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  • Joel 1:4 : 4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.
  • Amos 8:1 : 1 This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit.
  • Amos 4:9 : 9 I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
  • Amos 7:4 : 4 This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.
  • Amos 7:7 : 7 This is what he let me see: and I saw the Lord stationed by a wall made straight by a weighted line, and he had a weighted line in his hand.
  • Joel 2:25 : 25 I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.
  • Exod 10:12-16 : 12 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm. 13 And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will be again. 15 For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt. 16 Then Pharaoh quickly sent for Moses and Aaron, and said, I have done evil against the Lord your God and against you.
  • Isa 33:4 : 4 And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.
  • Jer 1:11-16 : 11 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch of an almond-tree. 12 Then the Lord said to me, You have seen well: for I keep watch over my word to give effect to it. 13 And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot, and its face is from the north. 14 Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north evil will come, bursting out on all the people of the land. 15 For see, I will send for all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord; and they will come, everyone placing his high seat at the way into Jerusalem, and against its walls on every side, and against all the towns of Judah. 16 And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.
  • Jer 24:1 : 1 The Lord gave me a vision, and I saw two baskets full of figs put in front of the Temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, had taken prisoner Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the chiefs of Judah, and the expert workmen and metal-workers from Jerusalem, and had taken them to Babylon.
  • Ezek 11:25 : 25 Then I gave an account to those who had been taken prisoners of all the things which the Lord had made me see.
  • Nah 3:15-17 : 15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts. 16 Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven: 17 Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.

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  • Amos 7:2-4
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    2 And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

    3 The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.

    4 This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.

  • Nah 3:15-17
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    15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

    16 Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:

    17 Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.

  • Isa 37:27
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    27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

  • Jer 46:23
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    23 They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.

  • Joel 1:4
    73%

    4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.

  • Joel 2:25
    73%

    25 I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.

  • Lev 11:22
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    22 Such as all the different sorts of locust.

  • Ps 105:34-35
    2 verses
    72%

    34 At his word the locusts came, and young locusts more than might be numbered,

    35 And put an end to all the plants of their land, taking all the fruit of the earth for food.

  • Ezek 7:1
    72%

    1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Isa 7:18-19
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    72%

    18 And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.

    19 And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
    72%

    26 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5 For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

  • Exod 10:12
    72%

    12 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm.

  • Exod 10:14
    71%

    14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will be again.

  • Ezek 17:11
    71%

    11 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Amos 8:1
    71%

    1 This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit.

  • Ps 78:46
    71%

    46 He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.

  • Rev 9:7
    71%

    7 And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

  • Rev 9:3
    70%

    3 And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions.

  • Deut 28:42
    70%

    42 All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.

  • Isa 40:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.

    7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

  • Deut 28:38
    70%

    38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

  • Jer 51:14
    70%

    14 The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.

  • Judg 7:12
    69%

    12 Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.

  • Joel 1:17
    69%

    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • Gen 41:23
    69%

    23 And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:

  • 2 Chr 7:13
    69%

    13 If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;

  • Prov 30:27
    69%

    27 The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands;

  • Amos 4:9
    69%

    9 I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

  • Job 8:12
    69%

    12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • Amos 9:1
    69%

    1 I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe.

  • Ps 37:2
    69%

    2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

  • Jonah 4:7
    68%

    7 But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead.

  • Jer 12:4
    68%

    4 How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

  • Ezek 17:1
    68%

    1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Isa 33:4
    68%

    4 And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.

  • Ezek 31:1
    68%

    1 Now in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 29:17
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    17 Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 3:16
    68%

    16 And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Judg 6:5
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    5 For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.

  • Ps 90:6
    68%

    6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

  • Prov 27:25
    68%

    25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.