(A)“I struck you with blight and mildew;
    your many gardens and your vineyards,
    your fig trees and your olive trees (B)the locust devoured;
(C)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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17 (A)I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, (B)yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.

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22 (A)The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought[a] and with (B)blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:22 Or sword

What (A)the cutting locust left,
    (B)the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
    (C)the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
    (D)the destroying locust has eaten.

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Warning Visions

(A)This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, (B)he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,

“O Lord God, please forgive!
    (C)How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”

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Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

“I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
    and (A)lack of bread in all your places,
(B)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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so two or three cities (A)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
(B)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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25 I will restore[a] to you the years
    that (A)the swarming locust has eaten,
(B)the hopper, (C)the destroyer, and (D)the cutter,
    (E)my great army, which I sent among you.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:25 Or pay back

It has laid waste my vine
    and splintered my (A)fig tree;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
    their branches are made white.

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O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
(A)You have struck them down,
    but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
    but they refused to take correction.
(B)They have made their faces harder than rock;
    they have refused to repent.

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10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me (A)with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”

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24 Who gave up Jacob to the looter,
    and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,
    in whose ways they would not walk,
    and whose law they would not obey?
25 So he poured on him the heat of his anger
    and the might of battle;
it set him on fire all around, (A)but he did not understand;
    it burned him up, (B)but he did not take it to heart.

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Why will you still be (A)struck down?
    Why will you (B)continue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
    and the whole heart faint.

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And if they are (A)bound in chains
    and caught in the cords of affliction,
then he declares to them their work
    and their transgressions, that they are (B)behaving arrogantly.
10 He (C)opens their ears to instruction
    and commands that they (D)return from iniquity.
11 (E)If they listen and serve him,
    they (F)complete their days in prosperity,
    and their years in pleasantness.
12 But if they do not listen, they (G)perish by the sword
    and die (H)without knowledge.

13 “The (I)godless in heart cherish anger;
    they do not cry for help when he (J)binds them.

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28 (A)“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,

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37 (A)“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates,[a] whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:37 Septuagint, Syriac in any of their cities

42 (A)The cricket[a] shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:42 Identity uncertain

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