Joel 1:1-12 - An Invasion Of Locusts
1 The word of the Lord that came
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listen, all you inhabitants of the land.
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
or in the days of your ancestors?
and let your children tell their children,
and their children the next generation.
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust has left,
the young locust
and what the young locust has left,
the destroying locust
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wail, all you wine drinkers,
because of the sweet wine,
for it has been taken from your mouth.
powerful and without number;
its teeth are the teeth of a lion,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
and splintered My fig tree.
It has stripped off its bark and thrown it away;
its branches have turned white.
mourning for the husband of her youth.
from the house of the Lord;
the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.
the land grieves;
indeed, the grain is destroyed;
the new wine is dried up;
and the olive oil fails.
wail, you vinedressers,
over the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.
and the fig tree is withered;
the pomegranate,
all the trees of the orchard—have withered.
Indeed, human joy has dried up.