1 The word of Adonai that came to Joel the son of Pethuel:
2 Hear this, elders! Give ear, all inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
3 Tell your children about it— your children to their children, their children to another generation.
4 What the locust left, the swarming locust has eaten, and what the swarming locust left, the canker-worm has eaten, and what the canker-worm left, the caterpillar has eaten.
5 Awake, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine— on account of sweet wine, for it is denied to your mouth!
6 For a nation has invaded my land. Vast—yes, without number! Its teeth are lion’s teeth, with jaw-teeth of a lioness.
7 He has turned my vine to waste and my fig tree to splinters. He has stripped off all the bark and flung it down— its branches are left white.