Joel 1:4

I am talking about the locusts that have eaten our crops. The first swarm of locusts came and cut many of the leaves of the crops; then another swarm came and ate the rest of the leaves, then another swarm came hopping along, and finally another swarm came and they destroyed everything else.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

In Context

3Tell your children about it, and tell your children to tell it to their children, and tell your grandchildren to tell it to their children.

5You people who are drunk, wake up! Wake up and wail loudly, because all the grapes are ruined, and so there will be no new wine [MTY]!

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Cross References

Exodus 10:4If you keep refusing to let them go, I warn you that tomorrow I will bring ◄locusts/ large flying insects called locusts► into your country.

Exodus 10:14The locusts swarmed all over Egypt. It was larger than any swarm of locusts that had ever been seen, and there will never be a swarm of locusts like that again.

Deuteronomy 28:38You will plant plenty of seeds in your fields, but you will reap only a small harvest, because locusts will eat the crops.

1 Kings 8:37And when the people of this land experience famines, or if there is a plague/illness that causes many people to become sick, or if their crops are destroyed by very hot winds or by mildew or by locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies surround any of their cities in order to attack them, if any of those bad things happen to them,

2 Chronicles 7:13“When I prevent any rain from falling, or when I command locusts to eat all the crops, or when I send a plague among my people,

Psalms 105:34He commanded locusts to come, and swarms of them came; so many that they could not be counted.

Matthew Henry on Joel 1:2-8

Joel We are altogether uncertain concerning the time when this prophet prophesied; it is probable that it was about the same time Amos prophesied, not for the reason that the rabbin give, "Because Amos begins his prophecy with that wherewith Joel concludes his, The Lord shall roar out of Zion, " but for the reason Dr. Lightfoot gives, "Because he speaks of the same judgments of locusts, and drought, and fire, that Amos laments, which is an intimation that they appeared about the same time, Amos in Israel and Joel… Read the whole commentary →

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