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Lament over the Ruin of the Country

Hear this, O elders;
    give ear, all inhabitants of the land!
Has such a thing happened in your days
    or in the days of your ancestors?(A)
Tell your children of it,
    and let your children tell their children,
    and their children another generation.(B)

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

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