2 Hear this, elders,and give ear, all inhabitants of the land!Has anything like this happened in your days,or in the days of your fathers?
3 Tell it to your children,and let your children tell their children,and let their children tell another generation.
4 What the fledging locust left,the adult locust has eaten;what the adult locust left,the larval locust has eaten;what the larval locust left,the hopper locust has eaten.
5 Awaken, drunkards, and weep!Wail, all wine-drinkers,because the sweet winehas been cut off from your lips.
6 For a nation powerful and innumerablehas invaded my land;its teeth are like the teeth of a lion,like the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has despoiled my vine,and splintered my fig tree;it has stripped off its barkand cast it away,leaving its branches white.
8 Lament like a virgin wearing sackclothfor the husband of her youth.