1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
2 Hear this, you elders;listen, all who live in the land.Has anything like this ever happened in your daysor in the days of your ancestors?
3 Tell it to your children,and let your children tell it to their children,and their children to the next generation.
4 What the locust swarm has leftthe great locusts have eaten;what the great locusts have leftthe young locusts have eaten;what the young locusts have leftother locusts have eaten.