Joel 1:2-4
Tree of Life Version
Mourn the Land’s Destruction
2 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?
3 Tell your children about it—
your children to their children,
their children to another generation.
4 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.
Joel 1:2-4
New International Version
An Invasion of Locusts
2 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)
3 Tell it to your children,(E)
and let your children tell it to their children,
and their children to the next generation.(F)
4 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)
Footnotes
- Joel 1:4 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.
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