The Locusts Bring Desolation
The aword of Yahweh that came to bJoel, the son of Pethuel:
2 aHear this, O belders,
And give ear, all inhabitants of the land.
cHas anything like this happened in your days
Or in your fathers’ days?
3 aRecount about it to your sons,
And let your sons recount about it to their sons,
And their sons to the next generation.
4 What the agnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has consumed;
And what the bswarming locust has left, the creeping locust has consumed;
And what the creeping locust has left, the cstripping locust has consumed.
5 Awake, adrunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you wine drinkers,
On account of the sweet wine
That is bcut off from your mouth.
6 For a anation has come up against my land,
Mighty and without number;
bIts teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And it has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has amade my vine a desolation
And my fig tree splinters.
It has stripped them bare and cast them away;
Their branches have become white.