3 Tell your children about it,and have your children tell their children,and their children, another generation.
4 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten.What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten.What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine;for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number.His teeth are the teeth of a lion,and he has the fangs of a lioness.
7 He has laid my vine waste,and stripped my fig tree.He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.Its branches are made white.
8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the Lord’s house.The priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.