Joel 1:3-5

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³^(A)Tell your children of it,
and let your children tell their children,
and their children to another generation.

⁴What ^(B)the cutting locust left,
    ^(C)the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
    ^(D)the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
    ^(E)the destroying locust has eaten.

⁵Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
and ^(F)wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of ^(G)the sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.

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Joel 2:24-26

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²⁴“The threshing floors shall be full of grain;
    the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
²⁵I will restore^[a] to you the years
    that ^(A)the swarming locust has eaten,
^(B)the hopper, ^(C)the destroyer, and ^(D)the cutter,
    ^(E)my great army, which I sent among you.

²⁶^(F)“You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
and praise the name of the Lord your God,
who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people ^(G)shall never again be put to shame.