“This is what
Yahweh God
Showed me.
He was forming locusts
At the time
That the latter growth
Began to sprout.
It was the latter growth
After the king’s mowing.”
This vision of the locusts is a lot like that of the prophet Joel, chapter 1. Yahweh God was showing this vision to Amos. God was going to have streams of locusts come to Israel just when the late crop was beginning to sprout. This would have been after the king had already had his mowing of the first crop, which was before everyone else.