Amos 7:1

Amos 7:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings.
• New Living Translation (NLT)The Sovereign Lord showed me a vision. I saw him preparing to send a vast swarm of locusts over the land. This was after the king’s share had been harvested from the fields and as the main crop was coming up.

Context of Amos 7:1

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. 2When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!” 3So the Lord relented. “This will not happen,” the Lord said.

Amos 7:1 word by word

כֹּ֤ה הִרְאַ֙נִי֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה וְהִנֵּה֙ יוֹצֵ֣ר גֹּבַ֔י בִּתְחִלַּ֖ת עֲל֣וֹת הַלָּ֑קֶשׁ וְהִ֨נֵּה־לֶ֔קֶשׁ אַחַ֖ר גִּזֵּ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thus hath the Lordאֲדֹנָי'ădônây · LordH136
• Godיְהֹוִהyehôvih · YHWH/GodH3069
• shewedרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• unto me; and, behold, he formedיָצַרyâtsar · to form: formedH3335
• grasshoppersגֹּבַיgôb · locustH1462
• in the beginningתְּחִלָּהtechillâh · beginningH8462
• of the shooting upעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• of the latter growthלֶ֫קֶשׁleqesh · spring cropH3954
• afterאַחַר'achar · afterH310
• the king’sמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
• mowingsגֵּזgêz · fleeceH1488

Cross-references for Amos 7:1

• Amos 7:4This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.
• Amos 8:1This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
• Jeremiah 1:11The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you see, Jeremiah?” “I see the branch of an almond tree,” I replied.
• Jeremiah 24:1After Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the officials, the skilled workers and the artisans of Judah were carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the Lord.
• Ezekiel 11:25and I told the exiles everything the Lord had shown me.
• Zechariah 1:20Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen.
• Amos 4:9“Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, destroying them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
• Exodus 10:12And the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.”
• Isaiah 33:4Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.
• Joel 1:4What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten.
• Joel 2:25“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.
• Nahum 3:15There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down— they will devour you like a swarm of locusts. Multiply like grasshoppers, multiply like locusts!

Commentaries on Amos 7:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Behold, he formed grasshoppers - גבי gobai is generally understood here to signify locusts. See the notes on Joel 1 (note) and Joel 2 (note). The shooting up of the latter growth - The early crop of grass had been already mowed and housed. The second crop or rowing, as it is called in some places, was not yet begun. By the king's mowings we may understand the first crop, a portion of which the king probably claimed as being the better hay; but the words…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1And behold He formed - (that is, He was forming.) The very least things then are as much in His infinite Mind, as what we count the greatest. He has not simply made “laws of nature,” as people speak, to do His work, and continue the generations of the world. He Himself was still framing them, giving them being, as our Lord saith, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work” John 5:17. The same power of God is seen in creating the locust, as the universe. The…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Visions of judgments to come upon Israel. (1-9) Amaziah threatens Amos. (10-17) Verses 1-9 God bears long, but he will not bear always with a provoking people. The remembrance of the mercies we formerly received, like the produce of the earth of the former growth, should make us submissive to the will of God, when we meet with disappointments in the latter growth. The Lord has many ways of humbling a sinful nation. Whatever trouble we are under, we should…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1Locusts (see Amos 4:9) were one of the plagues that affected Egypt (Exodus 10:4). Large swarms of locusts often invaded these lands, especially during droughts. king’s harvest: The first harvest was given to the king as taxes. The later harvest of the main crop fed the farmer and his family. If locusts ate this crop, starvation would occur.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-9Am. 7:1-9. The seventh, eighth, and ninth chapters contain Visions, with Their Explanations. The seventh chapter consists of two parts. First (Am 7:1-9): Prophecies Illustrated by Three Symbols: (1) A vision of grasshoppers or young locusts, which devour the grass, but are removed at Amos' entreaty; (2) Fire drying up even the deep, and withering part of the land, but removed at Amos' entreaty; (3) A plumb-line to mark the buildings for destruction…Read the comment

Topics related to Amos 7:1

• Mowing
• Tax
• Vision

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Commentaries on Amos 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings