1 The Lord spoke his word to Joel son of Pethuel:
2 Elders, listen to this message.Listen to me, all you who live in the land.Nothing like this has ever happened during your lifetimeor during your ancestors’ lifetimes.
3 Tell your children about these things,let your children tell their children,and let your grandchildren tell their children.
4 What the cutting locusts have left,the swarming locusts have eaten;what the swarming locusts have left,the hopping locusts have eaten,and what the hopping locusts have left,the destroying locusts have eaten.
5 Drunks, wake up and cry!All you people who drink wine, cry!Cry because your winehas been taken away from your mouths.
6 A powerful nation has come into my landwith too many soldiers to count.It has teeth like a lion,jaws like a female lion.