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Pass it on to your children,
    and from[a] your children to their children,
        and from[b] their children to the following generation.
Whatever the devouring locust left behind
    the locust swarm has consumed!
Whatever the locust swarm has left behind,
    the young locust[c] has consumed!
Whatever the young locust[d] has left behind,
    the ravaging locust has consumed!”

A Call to Mourning

“Wake up, you drunkards!
    Cry aloud and howl, you wine drinkers,
        because your supply of new wine has been snatched from you.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:3 The Heb. lacks from
  2. Joel 1:3 The Heb. lacks from
  3. Joel 1:4 Or caterpillar
  4. Joel 1:4 Or caterpillar
  5. Joel 1:5 Lit. from your lips