Deuteronomy 28:38-42

New International Version

³⁸You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little,^(A) because locusts^(B) will devour^(C) it. ³⁹You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine^(D) or gather the grapes, because worms will eat^(E) them.^(F) ⁴⁰You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.^(G) ⁴¹You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.^(H) ⁴²Swarms of locusts^(I) will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

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Joel 1:4-7

New International Version

⁴What the locust^(A) swarm has left
    the great locusts have eaten;
what the great locusts have left
    the young locusts have eaten;
what the young locusts have left^(B)
    other locusts^[a] have eaten.^(C)

⁵Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
    Wail, all you drinkers of wine;^(D)
wail because of the new wine,
    for it has been snatched^(E) from your lips.
⁶A nation has invaded my land,
    a mighty army without number;^(F)
it has the teeth^(G) of a lion,
    the fangs of a lioness.
⁷It has laid waste^(H) my vines
    and ruined my fig trees.^(I)
It has stripped off their bark
    and thrown it away,
    leaving their branches white.

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Footnotes

Joel 1:4 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.

Joel 1:12

New International Version

¹²The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;^(A)
the pomegranate,^(B) the palm and the apple^[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.^(C)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.