3 Tell your children about it.Have your children tell their children.Have your grandchildren tell their children.
4 What young locusts leave, mature locusts will eat.What mature locusts leave, adult locusts will eat.What adult locusts leave, grasshoppers will eat.
5 Wake up and cry, you drunks!Cry loudly, you wine drinkers!New wine has been taken away from you.
6 A strong nation attacked my land.It has too many soldiers to count.They have teeth like lions.They have fangs like grown lions.
7 They destroyed my grapevines.They ruined my fig trees.They stripped off what they could eat,threw the rest away,and left the branches bare.
8 Cry loudly like a young woman who is dressed in sackcloth,mourning for the man she was going to marry.
9 Grain offerings and wine offeringsare no longer brought to the Lord’s temple.The priests, the Lord’s servants, mourn.