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.
7 It has made my grapevine a wasteand made my fig tree a stump.It has stripped all the bark off my treesand left the branches white.
8 Cry as a young woman crieswhen the man she was going to marry has died.
9 There will be no more grain or drink offeringsto offer in the Temple of the Lord.Because of this, the priests,the servants of the Lord, are sad.