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Amos 7:1

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 7 This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah showed me: Look! He formed a locust swarm when the late crop* was beginning to come up. This was the later crop after the king’s hay had been cut.

Amos 7:1

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 7 This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah caused me to see, and, look! he was forming a [locust] swarm at the start of the coming up of the later sowing.*+ And, look! it was the later sowing after the mown grass of the king.*

Amos 7:1

The Bible in Living English
- 7 *** Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: there was he shaping young grasshoppers when the spring growth was starting, and there came full-grown grasshoppers after the king’s clipping.

Amos 7:1

American Standard Version
- 7 Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

Amos 7:1

The Emphasized Bible
- 7 Here My Lord Yahweh gave me to see, And lo! he was preparing the locust in the beginning of the shooting up of the after-grass,—and lo! after-grass cometh after the mowings for the king.

Amos 7:1

King James Version
- 7 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.