Joel 1:1-12 - An Invasion Of Locusts
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And listen, all inhabitants of the land.
Or in your fathers’ days?
And let your sons tell their sons,
And their sons the next generation.
And what the
And what the creeping locust has left, the
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And wail, all you wine drinkers,
On account of the sweet wine
That is
Mighty and without number;
And it has the fangs of a lioness.
And my fig tree
It has stripped them bare and cast them away;
Their branches have become white.
For the bridegroom of her youth.
From the house of the Lord.
The
The ministers of the Lord.
For the grain is ruined,
The new wine dries up,
Fresh oil
Wail, O vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the
And the fig tree
The
All the trees of the field dry up.
Indeed,
From the sons of men.