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Mourn the Land’s Destruction

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?
Tell your children about it—
your children to their children,
their children to another generation.
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.

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An Invasion of Locusts

Hear this,(A) you elders;(B)
    listen, all who live in the land.(C)
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
    or in the days of your ancestors?(D)
Tell it to your children,(E)
    and let your children tell it to their children,
    and their children to the next generation.(F)
What the locust(G) 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(H)
    other locusts[a] have eaten.(I)

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Footnotes

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