² Hear this,^(C) you elders;^(D)
    listen, all who live in the land.^(E)
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
    or in the days of your ancestors?^(F)
3 Tell it to your children,^(G)
    and let your children tell it to their children,
    and their children to the next generation.^(H)
4 What the locust^(I) swarm has left
    the great locusts have eaten;
what the great locusts have left
    the young locusts have eaten;
what the young locusts have left^(J)
    other locusts^[a] have eaten.^(K)

¹³ Put on sackcloth,^(A) you priests, and mourn;
    wail, you who minister^(B) before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
    you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings^(C)
    are withheld from the house of your God.
¹⁴ Declare a holy fast;^(D)
    call a sacred assembly.
Summon the elders
    and all who live in the land^(E)
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out^(F) to the Lord.^(G)