Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G Message"I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten—the great swarm, the young locust, the stripping locust, and the cutting locust—My great army that I sent against you."
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.G"I will restore to you the years the arbeh has devoured—the yeleq, the chasil, and the gazam—My great army that I sent against you."
KJV
King James VersionAnd 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.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleI will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
Footnotes
אַרְבֶּה / יֶלֶק / חָסִיל / גָּזָם: Four distinct Hebrew terms for locusts at different stages or species. Scholars debate whether these are four life-cycle stages of the same insect or four different species. F.O.G retains the Hebrew terms to signal the precision and comprehensiveness of the judgment—every stage of destructive agency is named. F.O.G Message renders them by function and stage to make the image vivid to English readers. The verb 'repay' in F.O.G Message captures the covenantal reversal—what the enemy consumed, YHWH will compensate as a debt owed.
