Amos 7:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ This is what the Lord Jehovah showed me: Behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the sprouting of the second crop. It was the later growth (second crop) after the king’s mowing.

¹² Jehovah said to Moses: »Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts. Let them come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has left.« ¹³ Moses held his staff over the land of Egypt. Jehovah made a wind from the east blow over the land all that day and all that night. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts. ¹⁴ They invaded all of Egypt and landed all over the country in great swarms. Never before had there been so many locusts, nor would there ever be that many again. ¹⁵ They covered all the ground until it was black with them. They ate all the plants and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant anywhere in Egypt. ¹⁶ Pharaoh quickly called for Moses and Aaron and said: »I have sinned against Jehovah your God and against you.

⁴ Your plunder, O nations, is harvested like young devouring locusts; like a swarm of cockroaches men pounce on it.

¹¹ Jehovah spoke his word to me again. He asked: »What do you see Jeremiah?« I answered: »I see a branch of an almond tree.« ¹² Jehovah said: »You are right. For I watch to make sure that my words come true.« ¹³ Again Jehovah asked: »What do you see?« I answered: »I see a boiling pot, and its top is tilted away from the north.« ¹⁴ Jehovah said to me: »Disaster will be poured out from the north on all those who live in the land. ¹⁵ »I am going to call every family and kingdom from the north, says Jehovah. They will come, and they will set up their thrones at the entrance of Jerusalem's gates. They will attack all the walls around the city and all the cities of Judah. ¹⁶ »I will pronounce judgment against my people because of all their wickedness. They abandoned me. They burned incense to other gods. They worshiped what their hands have made.

¹ Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon carried away captive Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah. He also captured the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon. Then Jehovah showed me two baskets of figs set before the Temple of Jehovah!

²⁵ Then I told the exiles all the things that Jehovah had shown me.

²⁵ »I will make up to you the years that the locust has eaten, my great army that I sent among you.

⁹ »I struck you with scorching and mildew. The caterpillar has devoured the multitudes of your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive-trees. Yet you have not returned to me,« said Jehovah.

⁴ The Lord Jehovah showed me and, behold, the Lord Jehovah called for judgement (contention) by fire and it devoured the great deep. It would have eaten up the land.

⁷ He showed me: and, behold, Jehovah stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

¹ The Lord Jehovah showed me a basket of summer fruit.

⁴ »That which the gnawing locust left the swarming locust ate. That which the swarming locust left the creeping locust ate. That which the creeping locust left other locusts ate.

¹⁵ »You will be burned to death or killed in battle. You will be devoured like crops eaten by locusts. You grew in number like locusts! ¹⁶ »You multiplied your merchants like the stars in the sky! But now they are gone, like locusts that spread their wings and fly away. ¹⁷ »Your princes are as the locusts, and your officers as the swarms of grasshoppers. They encamp in the hedges on a cold day, but when the sun shines they flee away and no one knows where they go.

²⁰ Then Jehovah showed me four craftsmen.