Joel 1:4-7

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What the ^(A)gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten;
And what the ^(B)swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten;
And what the creeping locust has left, the ^(C)stripping locust has eaten.

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Awake, ^(D)drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you wine drinkers,
On account of the sweet wine
That is ^(E)cut off from your mouth.

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For a ^(F)nation has ^(a)invaded my land,
Mighty and without number;
^(G)Its teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And it has the fangs of a lioness.

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It has ^(H)made my vine a waste
And my fig tree ^(b)splinters.
It has stripped them bare and cast them away;
Their branches have become white.

Footnotes:

a. Joel 1:6: ['Lit ', come up against]

b. Joel 1:7: ['Or ', a stump]

Cross references:

A. Joel 1:4: Deuteronomy 28:38; Joel 2:25; Amos 4:9

B. Joel 1:4: Nahum 3:15; Nahum 3:16

C. Joel 1:4: Isaiah 33:4

D. Joel 1:5: Joel 3:3

E. Joel 1:5: Isaiah 32:10

F. Joel 1:6: Joel 2:2; Joel 2:11; Joel 2:25

G. Joel 1:6: Revelation 9:8

H. Joel 1:7: Isaiah 5:6; Amos 4:9