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Deuteronomy 28:38-39

Context
The Curse of Reversed Status

28:38 “You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it. 28:39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

Amos 7:1-2

Context
Symbolic Visions of Judgment

7:1 The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw 1  him making locusts just as the crops planted late 2  were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest. 3 ) 7:2 When they had completely consumed the earth’s vegetation, I said,

“Sovereign Lord, forgive Israel! 4 

How can Jacob survive? 5 

He is too weak!” 6 

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[7:1]  1 tn Heb “behold” or “look.”

[7:1]  2 sn The crops planted late (consisting of vegetables) were planted in late January-early March and sprouted in conjunction with the spring rains of March-April. For a discussion of the ancient Israelite agricultural calendar, see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 31-44.

[7:1]  3 tn Or “the mowings of the king.”

[7:2]  4 tn “Israel” is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[7:2]  5 tn Heb “stand” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).

[7:2]  6 tn Heb “small.”



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