8:5 You say,
“When will the new moon festival 1 be over, 2 so we can sell grain?
When will the Sabbath end, 3 so we can open up the grain bins? 4
We’re eager 5 to sell less for a higher price, 6
and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales! 7
7:1 The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw 8 him making locusts just as the crops planted late 9 were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest. 10 )
9:13 “Be sure of this, 11 the time is 12 coming,” says the Lord,
“when the plowman will catch up to the reaper 13
and the one who stomps the grapes 14 will overtake 15 the planter. 16
Juice will run down the slopes, 17
it will flow down all the hillsides. 18