Joel 1:1-4

The Voice

² Hear this, elders and leaders.
    All who live in the land should pay close attention.
Has anything like this ever happened?
    No, not in your lifetimes or your fathers’.
³ So be sure to tell this story to your sons and daughters.
    Your sons should tell their sons and so on, for generations.

⁴ We have been invaded!
What the cutting locusts left,
    the swarming locusts consumed;
What the swarming locusts left,
    the creeping locusts consumed;
What the creeping locusts left,
    the stripping locusts finished off.^[a]