Joel 1:1-7

World English Bible

² Hear this, you elders,
    and listen, all you inhabitants of the land!
Has this ever happened in your days,
    or in the days of your fathers?
³ Tell your children about it,
    and have your children tell their children,
    and their children, another generation.
⁴ What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten.
    What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten.
    What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
⁵ Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
    Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine,
    for it is cut off from your mouth.
⁶ For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number.
    His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
    and he has the fangs of a lioness.
⁷ He has laid my vine waste,
    and stripped my fig tree.
    He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.
    Its branches are made white.