Joel 1:1-12 - An Invasion Of Locusts

¹ The word of the LORD that went to Joel the son of Pethuel.

² Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the earth. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? ³ Tell your sons of it, and let your sons tell their sons, and their sons another generation. ⁴ That which the palmerworm has left the locust has eaten; and that which the locust has left the cankerworm has eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left the caterpillar has eaten.

⁵ Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. ⁶ For a people has come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the molars of a great lion. ⁷ He has laid my vine waste and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bare and cast it away; its branches are made white. ⁸ Lament like a young woman girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. ⁹ The grain offering and the drink offering of the house of the LORD has perished; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. ¹⁰ The field was destroyed, the land mourns; for the wheat was destroyed; the new wine was dried up, the oil perished. ¹¹ Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is lost. ¹² The vine has dried up, and the fig tree has perished; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, have withered: therefore joy has withered away from the sons of men.