^4 (E)What the chewing ^[a]locust left, the ^(F)swarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.

⁵ Awake, you ^(G)drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
^(H)For it has been cut off from your mouth.
⁶ For ^(I)a nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
^(J)His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a ^[b]fierce lion.
⁷ He has ^(K)laid waste My vine,
And ^[c]ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.

^8 (L)Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For ^(M)the husband of her youth.
^9 (N)The grain offering and the drink offering
Have been cut off from the house of the Lord;
The priests ^(O)mourn, who minister to the Lord.
¹⁰ The field is wasted,
^(P)The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
^(Q)The new wine is dried up,
The oil fails.

^11 (R)Be ashamed, you farmers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
^12 (S)The vine has dried up,
And the fig tree has withered;
The pomegranate tree,
The palm tree also,
And the apple tree—
All the trees of the field are withered;
Surely ^(T)joy has withered away from the sons of men.

^15 (Y)Alas for the day!
For ^(Z)the day of the Lord is at hand;
It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
¹⁶ Is not the food ^(AA)cut off before our eyes,
^(AB)Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
¹⁷ The seed shrivels under the clods,
Storehouses are in shambles;
Barns are broken down,
For the grain has withered.
¹⁸ How ^(AC)the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are restless,
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep ^[d]suffer punishment.

¹⁹ O Lord, ^(AD)to You I cry out;
For ^(AE)fire has devoured the ^[e]open pastures,
And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
²⁰ The beasts of the field also ^(AF)cry out to You,
For ^(AG)the water brooks are dried up,
And fire has devoured the ^[f]open pastures.

³ A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like ^(G)the Garden of Eden before them,
^(H)And behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them.
^4 (I)Their appearance is like the appearance of horses;
And like ^[b]swift steeds, so they run.
^5 (J)With a noise like chariots
Over mountaintops they leap,
Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble,
Like a strong people set in battle array.

⁶ Before them the people writhe in pain;
^(K)All faces ^[c]are drained of color.
⁷ They run like mighty men,
They climb the wall like men of war;
Every one marches in formation,
And they do not break ^(L)ranks.
⁸ They do not push one another;
Every one marches in his own ^[d]column.
Though they lunge between the weapons,
They are not ^[e]cut down.
⁹ They run to and fro in the city,
They run on the wall;
They climb into the houses,
They ^(M)enter at the windows ^(N)like a thief.

^10 (O)The earth quakes before them,
The heavens tremble;
^(P)The sun and moon grow dark,
And the stars diminish their brightness.
^11 (Q)The Lord gives voice before His army,
For His camp is very great;
^(R)For strong is the One who executes His word.
For the ^(S)day of the Lord is great and very terrible;
^(T)Who can endure it?