Joel 1:1-12 - An Invasion Of Locusts

¹ This is the word of the LORD, that came to Joel the son of Pethuel:

² Hear, O ye elders! Ponder this well, all ye that dwell in the land, if ever there happened such a thing in your days, or in the days of your fathers. ³ Tell your children of it, and let them show it to their children, and so they - to certify their posterity thereof. ⁴ Look, what the caterpillar hath left, that hath the grasshopper eaten up; what the grasshopper left, that hath the locust eaten up; and what the locust hath left, that hath the blasting consumed.

⁵ Wake up ye drunkards, and weep: mourn all ye wine sippers because of your sweet wine, for it shall be taken away from your mouth. ⁶ Yea, a mighty and an innumerable people shall come up into my land: these have teeth like the teeth of Lions, and chaftbones like the lioness. ⁷ They shall make my vineyard waste, they shall pull off the bark of my fig trees, strip them bare, cast them away, and make the branches white. ⁸ Make thy moan as a virgin doth that girdeth herself with sack, because of her bridegroom. ⁹ For the meat and drink offering shall be taken away from the house of the LORD: and the priests, the LORD's ministers, shall mourn. ¹⁰ The field shall be wasted, the land shall be in a miserable cause: for the corn shall be destroyed, the sweet wine shall come to confusion, and the oil utterly desolate. ¹¹ The husbandmen and the wine gardeners shall look piteously, and make lamentation for the wheat, wine and barley; and because the harvest upon the field is so clean destroyed. ¹² The grape gatherers shall make great moan, when the vineyard and fig trees be so utterly wasted. Yea all the pomegranates, palm trees, apple trees, and the other trees of the field shall wither away. Thus the merry cheer of the children of men shall come to confusion.