3 Tell your children about it,Let your children tell their children,And their children another generation.
4 What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten;What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.
5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep;And wail, all you drinkers of wine,Because of the new wine,For it has been cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation has come up against My land,Strong, and without number;His teeth are the teeth of a lion,And he has the fangs of a fierce lion.
7 He has laid waste My vine,And ruined My fig tree;He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;Its branches are made white.
8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackclothFor the husband of her youth.
9 The grain offering and the drink offeringHave been cut off from the house of the Lord;The priests mourn, who minister to the Lord.