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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.
Wake up, drunkards, and weep!
Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine,
    for it is cut off from your mouth.
Because a nation has invaded[a] my land,
    strong and beyond counting.[b]
Its teeth are the teeth of a lion,
    and its fangs are those of a lioness.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:6 Literally “come up against”
  2. Joel 1:6 Literally “without number”