Joel 1:1-5

New Living Translation

² Hear this, you leaders of the people.
    Listen, all who live in the land.
In all your history,
    has anything like this happened before?
³ Tell your children about it in the years to come,
    and let your children tell their children.
    Pass the story down from generation to generation.
⁴ After the cutting locusts finished eating the crops,
    the swarming locusts took what was left!
After them came the hopping locusts,
    and then the stripping locusts,^[a] too!