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Whatever the devouring locust left behind
    the locust swarm has consumed!
Whatever the locust swarm has left behind,
    the young locust[a] has consumed!
Whatever the young locust[b] has left behind,
    the ravaging locust has consumed!”

A Call to Mourning

“Wake up, you drunkards!
    Cry aloud and howl, you wine drinkers,
        because your supply of new wine has been snatched from you.[c]
Indeed, a nation has invaded my land—
    it is strong and its population is too large to count[d]
with teeth like a lion
    and fangs[e] like a lioness.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:4 Or caterpillar
  2. Joel 1:4 Or caterpillar
  3. Joel 1:5 Lit. from your lips
  4. Joel 1:6 Lit. and innumerable
  5. Joel 1:6 Or jaws

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)

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
    Wail, all you drinkers of wine;(D)
wail because of the new wine,
    for it has been snatched(E) from your lips.
A nation has invaded my land,
    a mighty army without number;(F)
it has the teeth(G) of a lion,
    the fangs of a lioness.

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Footnotes

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