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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.

Verse ConceptsInsectsFamine, Causes OfCaterpillarsLocustsSuffering, Nature OfSymbolsDestruction Of PlantsGathering FoodRemaining Food

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholLipsWineIntoxicationAlcohol ConsumptionShortage Of WineNo FoodWake Up!drunkards

For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

Verse ConceptsBitingNationalismTeethGod Is GraciousCreatures Like LionsMany CreaturesNations Attacking Israel

He set my vine for destruction, and my fig tree for breaking: he stripped off its covering and cast away; and its shoots were whitened.

Verse ConceptsWhiteThings StrippedFoliage

For the meat and drink offering shall be taken away from the house of the LORD: and the priests, the LORD's ministers, shall mourn.

Verse ConceptsMaking Cereal Offerings And LibationsPeople Mourning CatastropheMeat offerings

Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

Verse ConceptsGrainHarvestOccupationsDestroying VineyardsPloughmenNot Reaping What You Sow

The vine is withered, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.

Verse ConceptsPalm TreesFruitFig treedrynessApplesPomegranatesHarming TreesLack Of Rejoicing

Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

Verse ConceptsGesturesClothSackcloth And AshesAll Night PrayersClothing OneselfMaking Cereal Offerings And Libations

Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAssembling IsraelExamples of LeadershipFastingFasting And Prayerelders

The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

Verse ConceptsBarnsGrainStoringTitles And Names Of Ministers

How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered, for they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep also are in suffering.

Verse ConceptsCattle

O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodBurning PlantsHarming TreesI Pray

The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsdrynessWaters Drying UpBurning PlantsBrooks

Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

Verse ConceptsTrumpetImminenceGroups TremblingThe Fact Of That DayNear The Time GenerallyTrumpets At The Enddrums

A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again {for generations to come}.

Verse ConceptsBlackLargenessDark DaysUnique EventsLarge Armies

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheEdenAnticipationFire Of JudgementNo Escape

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

Verse ConceptsNoiseLeapingWheelsAttacking With ChariotsCreatures JumpingBurning PlantsBangsRumbling

People writhe in fear when they see them. All of their faces turn pale with fright.

Verse ConceptsVision

They run like elite soldiers, climbing ramparts like men trained for war. Each man advances in proper order, never breaking rank.

Verse ConceptsSoldiersGod Is GraciousFast RunnersOrderly ArmyOvercoming Obstacles

They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

Verse ConceptsCreatures JumpingHouses Under Attackthievesgrandfathersjumping

And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsLast DaysThunderOrderly ArmyThe Fact Of That DayEnduringGod As A WarriorGod SpeakingPeople AppalledSurvivalThe Presence Of GodarmyThunder Expressing God's Judgment

Who knoweth? He might return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, an oblation and a drink-offering for Jehovah your God?

Verse ConceptsMaking Cereal Offerings And Libations

Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:

Verse ConceptsTrumpetAssembling IsraelTrumpets For CelebrationFasting

Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.

Verse ConceptsBridegroomBridesBreasts, Nursing MothersClosetsWeddingsGod Is GraciousAssembling IsraelGoing OutsideDealing With Young PeopleMaking People HolySanctificationThe Elderlyelderscouplesbreastsgathering

Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Have pity on Your people, O Jehovah, and give not Your inheritance to shame, for a proverb among those of the nations. Why should they say among the people, Where is their God?

Verse ConceptsBywordOutsidersPriests, Function In Ot TimesPorchesGod Not ExistingBeing ReprovedWhere Is God?

But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

Verse ConceptsBarrennessBarren, LandSmellsMediterranean SeaDead SeaReturn From The NorthDry PlacesFront And Back

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

Verse ConceptsSpringVinesAnimals, Care ForGreenBearing FruitFear And Animals

Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

Verse ConceptsWeather, God's Sovereignty OverAbundance, MaterialNames And Titles For The ChristianGod Sending RainLatenessspringtimevindication


“And I will compensate you for the years
That the swarming locust has eaten,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust—
My great army which I sent among you.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeCaterpillarsInsectsLocustsChangecancerlukewarmrehabilitationworms

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDFate, And FatalismCalling upon GodLast DaysRemnantRescueZion, As A PlaceEscaping From PeopleSurvivors Favoured

For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

Verse ConceptsLast Days

I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Verse ConceptsArmageddonNationalismPeople Of God, In OtJudgmentNames And Titles For The ChurchGathering Other Nations

Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon and all the [five small] regions of Philistia? Will you pay Me back for something [I have supposedly done to you]? Even if you do pay Me back, I will swiftly and speedily return your deed [of retaliation] on your own head.

Verse ConceptsSpeedWhat Have We In Common?God Will RequiteWork Soon Done

For you have taken my silver and my gold, and my beautiful treasures you have carried into your temples.

Verse ConceptsTaking Mixed Metals

The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

Verse ConceptsHomeFar From Here

Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them. I will repay you for what you have done!

Verse ConceptsVigourGod Will Requite

And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesChildren SufferingFar From Here

Proclaim this among the nations: {Prepare for war}! Stir up the mighty warriors; let them approach and come up; [let] all the men of war approach.

Verse ConceptsVigourReady For WarPreparationWarBattleheroes

Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears, - as for the weak, let him say, mighty, I am.

Verse ConceptsPruningSpearsToolsWeakness, SpiritualAmbivalenceNo Strength To Cope

Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeJudgment SeatSittingVigourawakening

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

Verse ConceptsHarvestMaturity, PhysicalSicklesSowing And ReapingWinepressAbundance, MaterialTreading GrapesWineskins And Vats

And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: and Jehovah will be a shelter for his people, and the refuge of the children of Israel.

Verse Conceptsdefence, divineGod, The RockSkyThunderStrongholdsZion, As A SymbolTremblingGod SpeakingzionThunder Expressing God's Judgment

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Verse ConceptsInnocent BloodThe Prophecy Towards EdomSheddingDestruction Of CountriesViolence In The EarthKilling The Innocent

But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

Verse ConceptsInhabitationjerusalem