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Tell our children!
Let it be told
    to our grandchildren
    and their children too.

Swarm after swarm of locusts[a]
has attacked our crops,
    eating everything in sight.
Sober up, you drunkards!
Cry long and loud;
    your wine supply is gone.

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Footnotes

  1. 1.4 Swarm … locusts: The Hebrew text lists either four kinds of locusts or locusts in four stages of their development. Locusts are a type of grasshopper that comes in swarms and causes great damage to plant life.

Tell it to your children,(A)
    and let your children tell it to their children,
    and their children to the next generation.(B)
What the locust(C) 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(D)
    other locusts[a] have eaten.(E)

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
    Wail, all you drinkers of wine;(F)
wail because of the new wine,
    for it has been snatched(G) from your lips.

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Footnotes

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