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Indeed, a nation has invaded my land—
    it is strong and its population is too large to count[a]
with teeth like a lion
    and fangs[b] like a lioness.
That nation[c] laid waste my vines,
    and stripped bare my fig tree,
        discarding it.
It stripped off[d] its bark.

“Grieve like a virgin,
    who, dressed in her mourner’s clothes,[e]
        cries out in memory[f] of the man she was going to marry.[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:6 Lit. and innumerable
  2. Joel 1:6 Or jaws
  3. Joel 1:7 Lit. It
  4. Joel 1:7 Lit. made white
  5. Joel 1:8 Or in sackcloth
  6. Joel 1:8 The Heb. lacks in memory
  7. Joel 1:8 Lit. the husband of her youth