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Joel 2:25

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The Lord Speaks

25“Though I sent my great army against you—

those swarming locusts and hopping locusts,

the destroying locusts and the cutting locusts n that ate your crops—

I will pay you back

for those years of trouble.

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Footnotes

  1. nswarming … locusts These are different names for an insect like a large grasshopper. The locust can quickly destroy trees, plants, and crops, and in this destruction, Joel sees a warning. God will cause this type of destruction when he punishes his people.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

I will restore to you the years

that the swarming locust has eaten,

the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,

my great army, which I sent among you.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten—

the great locust and the young locust,

the other locusts and the locust swarm—

my great army that I sent among you.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I will repay you for the years

that the swarming locust ate,

the young locust, the destroying locust,

and the devouring locust—

my great army that I sent against you.

NLTNew Living Translation

The Lord says, “I will give you back what you lost

to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts,

the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts.

It was I who sent this great destroying army against you.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

I will repay you the years

that the locust has eaten,

the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,

my mighty troops that I sent against you.

KJV 1900King James Version

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten,

The cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm,

My great army which I sent among you.