Amos 4:9
tI have smitten you with *blasting and mildew: 5when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, uthe *palmerworm devoured them: vyet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
t:
Haggai 2:17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
*:
blasting-a plant disease which causes foliage death.
5:
Or, the multitude of your gardens, &c. did the palmer-worm.
u:
Joel 1:4 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.
Joel 2:25 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.
Deuteronomy 28:42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
Amos 7:1 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.
Amos 7:2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
*:
palmerworm-destructive locust.
v:
Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
To other judgments inflicted on you I have added this also, my hand hath been heavy upon you,
the excessive heat and drought have turned your corn into black and parched smut or ashes;
a bane to corn through too much wet; the seasons were extremely unkind, and all spoiled with it.
about your houses for convenience and pleasure.
planted for your support and to enrich you, to cheer your heart.
which were excellent, of very great use and profit in those countries.
a principal commodity arose from their oliveyards: all that was for delight, profit, and necessary use.
when they were seemingly most fruitful.
see Joe 1:3,10-12.
eat up all, as is the manner of that worm.