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(A)Hear this, O (B)elders,
And give ear, all inhabitants of the land.
(C)Has anything like this happened in your days
Or in your fathers’ days?
(D)Recount about it to your sons,
And let your sons recount about it to their sons,
And their sons to the next generation.

What the (E)gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has consumed;
And what the (F)swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has consumed;
And what the creeping locust has left, the (G)stripping locust has consumed.

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An Invasion of Locusts

Hear this,(A) you elders;(B)
    listen, all who live in the land.(C)
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
    or in the days of your ancestors?(D)
Tell it to your children,(E)
    and let your children tell it to their children,
    and their children to the next generation.(F)
What the locust(G) 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(H)
    other locusts[a] have eaten.(I)

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Footnotes

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