1 The Lord’s word that came to Joel, Pethuel’s son:
2 Hear this, elders;pay attention, everyone in the land!Has anything like this ever happened in your days,or in the days of your ancestors?
3 Tell it to your children,and have your children tell their children,and their children tell their children.
4 What the cutting locust left,the swarming locust has eaten.What the swarming locust left,the hopping locust has eaten.And what the hopping locust left,the devouring locust has eaten.
5 Wake up, you who drink too much, and weep.Scream over the sweet wine,all you wine drinkers,because it is snatched from your mouth;
6 because a nation, powerful and beyond number,has invaded my land.Its teeth are like lions’ teeth;its fangs are like those of a lioness.
7 It has destroyed my vines,splintered my fig trees,stripped off their bark and thrown it down;their branches have turned white.