Amos 7:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Thus the Lord GOD showed to me; and, behold, he formed locusts at the beginning of the late growth; and, lo, it was the late growth after the king's mowings.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    This is what the Lord God showed me: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the beginning of the late crop, after the royal harvest.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The LORDE God shewed me soch a vision: beholde, there stode one that made gre?shoppers, euen when the corne was shutynge forth, after the kynge had clipte his shepe.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Thus hath the Lorde God shewed vnto mee, and beholde, he formed grashoppers in the beginning of ye shooting vp of the latter grouth: and loe, it was in the latter grouth after the Kings mowing.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Thus hath the Lorde God shewed vnto me, & beholde, he fourmed grashoppers in the beginning of the shooting vp of ye latter growth, and lo it was in the latter growth, after the kinges mowing.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, [it was] the latter growth after the king's mowings.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Thus 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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and lo, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the ascending of the latter growth, and lo, the latter growth `is' after the mowings of the king;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Thus 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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Symbolic Visions of Judgment The Sovereign LORD showed me this: I saw him making locusts just as the crops planted late were beginning to sprout.(The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest.)

Referenced Verses

  • Joel 1:4 : 4 What the palmerworm has left, the locust has eaten; and what the locust has left, the cankerworm has eaten; and what the cankerworm has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
  • Amos 8:1 : 1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
  • Amos 4:9 : 9 I have struck you with blight and mildew: when your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees increased, the locust devoured them: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.
  • Amos 7:4 : 4 Thus the Lord GOD showed to me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and consumed a part.
  • Amos 7:7 : 7 Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made with a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
  • Joel 2:25 : 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
  • Exod 10:12-16 : 12 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has left. 13 And Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the territory of Egypt; they were very grievous; before them there were no locusts like them, nor after them shall be such. 15 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and no green thing remained in the trees or in the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt. 16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.
  • Isa 33:4 : 4 Your spoil will be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar; as locusts run to and fro, he will run upon them.
  • Jer 1:11-16 : 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. 12 Then the LORD said to me, You have seen well: for I will hasten My word to perform it. 13 And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot; and its face is toward the north. 14 Then the LORD said to me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. 15 For behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the LORD; and they shall come, and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah. 16 And I will utter My judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
  • Jer 24:1 : 1 The LORD showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
  • Ezek 11:25 : 25 Then I spoke to those of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shown me.
  • Nah 3:15-17 : 15 There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts. 16 You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven: the locust spoils, and flies away. 17 Your crowned are as the locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
  • Zech 1:20 : 20 Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

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