What (A)the cutting locust left,
    (B)the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
    (C)the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
    (D)the destroying locust has eaten.

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What 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)

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Footnotes

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

For (A)a nation has come up against my land,
    (B)powerful and beyond number;
(C)its teeth are lions' teeth,
    and it has the fangs of a lioness.

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A nation has invaded my land,
    a mighty army without number;(A)
it has the teeth(B) of a lion,
    the fangs of a lioness.

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