I am the Lord who rules over all. I have made a promise in my own name. I have said,‘ I will certainly fill your land with soldiers. They will be as many as a huge number of locusts. They will win the battle over you. They will shout for joy.’

万军之耶和华指着自己起誓说：“我必使敌人充满你，像蚂蚱一样；他们必呐喊攻击你。”

万军之耶和华指着自己起誓说：我必使人遍满各处像蝗虫一样，他们必呐喊攻击你。

万军之耶和华指着自己起誓说：我必使人遍满各处像蝗虫一样，他们必呐喊攻击你。

万军之耶和华凭自己起誓说：“我要使敌人如蝗虫一样铺天盖地而来，占据你们的家园，欢呼胜利。”

万军之耶和华指着自己起誓，说：“我必使敌人充满你，像蝗虫一样布满你的全地，他们必对你发出胜利的吶喊。”

萬軍之耶和華指着自己起誓說：我必使敵人充滿你，像螞蚱一樣；他們必吶喊攻擊你。

萬軍之耶和華指着自己起誓說：我必使人遍滿各處像蝗蟲一樣，他們必吶喊攻擊你。

萬軍之耶和華指着自己起誓說：我必使人遍滿各處像蝗蟲一樣，他們必吶喊攻擊你。

萬軍之耶和華憑自己起誓說：「我要使敵人如蝗蟲一樣鋪天蓋地而來，佔據你們的家園，歡呼勝利。」

萬軍之耶和華指著自己起誓，說：“我必使敵人充滿你，像蝗蟲一樣布滿你的全地，他們必對你發出勝利的吶喊。”

萬軍之永恆主指着自己來起誓，說：我必使敵人充滿了你，像蝻子一樣；他們必以高喊聲相呼應來攻擊你。

萬軍之耶和華指己而誓曰、我必使敵若蝗、充牣爾中、彼必向爾號呼、○

萬有之主耶和華、指己而誓、曰、我使敵至、若蝗眾多、號呼攻爾。

萬有之主指己而誓曰、我必使敵如蝗之多、遍滿爾中、號呼攻爾、○

The Lord Almighty has sworn by himself: I will surely fill you with troops, as with a swarm of locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.

The Lord of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts, and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.

The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has taken this vow and has sworn to it by his own name:“ Your cities will be filled with enemies, like fields swarming with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”

The LORD of Armies has sworn by himself: I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will sing the victory song over you.

The Lord of armies has sworn by Himself:“ I will certainly fill you with a population like locusts, And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you.”

The Lord of hosts has sworn by Himself:“ Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, And they shall lift up a shout against you.”

Jehovah of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker- worm; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

The Lord of Hosts has sworn by Himself: I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will sing the victory song over you.

The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself,[ saying], Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

The LORD who rules over all has solemnly sworn,‘ I will fill your land with enemy soldiers. They will swarm over it like locusts. They will raise up shouts of victory over it.’

Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying,‘ Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they will lift up a shout against you.’

The Lord says,“ I sent a great army of locusts to attack you. They included common locusts, giant locusts, young locusts and other locusts. I will make up for the years they ate your crops.

Shout against them on every side! They are giving up. The towers of the city are falling. Its walls are being pulled down. The Lord is paying back its people. So pay them back yourselves. Do to them what they have done to others.

The Lord and King has made a promise in his own name. He is the Lord God who rules over all. He announces,“ I hate the pride of Jacob’s people. I can’t stand their forts. I will hand the city of Samaria and everything in it over to their enemies.”

I make a promise in my own name. Bozrah will be destroyed,” announces the Lord.“ People will be shocked at it. They will say Bozrah is a shameful place. They will use its name as a curse. And all its towns will be destroyed forever.”

In spite of all your hard work, fire will burn you up inside your city. Your enemies will cut you down with their swords. They will destroy you just as a swarm of locusts eats up crops. Multiply like grasshoppers! Increase your numbers like locusts!You have more traders than the number of stars in the sky. But like locusts they strip the land. Then they fly away.Your guards are like grasshoppers. Your officials are like swarms of locusts. They settle in the walls on a cold day. But when the sun appears, they fly away. And no one knows where they go.

The giant locusts have eaten what the common locusts have left. The young locusts have eaten what the giant locusts have left. And other locusts have eaten what the young locusts have left.Get up and weep, you people who drink too much! Cry, all you who drink wine! Cry because the fresh wine has been taken away from you.The locusts are like a mighty army that has marched into our land. There are so many of them they can’t even be counted. Their teeth are as sharp as a lion’s teeth. They are like the fangs of a female lion.The locusts have completely destroyed our vines. They have wiped out our fig trees. They’ve stripped off the bark and thrown it away. They’ve left the branches bare.

The Midianites came up with their livestock and tents. They came like huge numbers of locusts. It was impossible to count the men and their camels. They came into the land to destroy it.

“ Nations, lift up a banner in the land of Babylon! Blow a trumpet among yourselves! Prepare yourselves for battle against Babylon. Send the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz against it. Appoint a commander against it. Send many horses against it. Let them be as many as a huge number of locusts.

When God made his promise to Abraham, God gave his word. There was no one greater than himself to promise by. So he promised by making an appeal to himself.

Egypt is like a thick forest. But they will chop it down,” announces the Lord.“ There are more of their enemies than there are locusts. In fact, they can’t even be counted.

Like fire they eat up everything in their path. Behind them it looks as if flames have burned the land. In front of them the land is like the Garden of Eden. Behind them it is a dry and empty desert. Nothing escapes them.They look like horses. Like war horses they charge ahead.