Joel 1:1-12 - An Invasion Of Locusts

¹ The word of Yahweh, which came unto Joel, son of Pethuel.

² Hear this, ye elders, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land, - hath this ever happened in your days? or in the days of your fathers? ³ Concerning it, to your children, tell ye the story, - and your children, to their children, and their children, to the generation following: - ⁴ That which was left by the creeping locust, hath the swarming locust eaten, and, that which was left by the swarming locust, hath the grass locust eaten; and, that which was left by the grass locust, hath the corn locust eaten.

⁵ Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, - over the new wine, because it hath been cut off from your mouth. ⁶ For, a nation, hath come up over my land, bold, and without number, - his teeth, are the teeth of a lion, and, the fangs of a lioness, hath he! ⁷ He hath turned my vine to a waste, and my fig-tree to splinters, - he hath, barked it clean, and cast it down, bleached are its branches. ⁸ Wail thou, like a virgin girded with sackcloth, for the owner of her youth. ⁹ Cut off are the meal-offering and the drink-offering, from the house of Yahweh, - In grief are the priests, the attendants on Yahweh: - ¹⁰ Laid waste is the field, in grief is the soil, - for laid waste is the corn, abashed is the new wine, languisheth the oil. ¹¹ Turn pale, ye husbandmen, howl, ye vinedressers, over the wheat, and over the barley, - for perished is the harvest of the field. ¹² The vine, is abashed, and, the fig-tree, languisheth, - pomegranate, palm also, and apple - all the trees of the field, have withered, Yea abashed is gladness, away from the sons of men.