Joel 1:1-12 - An Invasion Of Locusts

¹ The word of Jehovah (YHWH) that came to Joel the son of Pethuel:

² Hear this, you older men! Listen all you inhabitants of the land. Did this take place in your days, or in the days of your fathers? ³ Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to each new generation. ⁴ That which the gnawing locust left the swarming locust ate. That which the swarming locust left the creeping locust ate. That which the creeping locust left other locusts ate.

⁵ Awake, you drunkards, and weep! Wail you drinkers of wine. The sweet wine is removed from your mouth. ⁶ A nation has invaded my land. It is strong and very large. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the jaw-teeth of a lioness. ⁷ He has laid my vine waste and stripped off the bark of my fig tree. He stripped its branches white and clean and threw it away. ⁸ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. ⁹ The meal offering and the drink offering are removed from the house of Jehovah. The priests and Jehovah's ministers mourn. ¹⁰ The field is laid waste, the land mourns. The grain is destroyed, the new wine dried up, the oil fails. ¹¹ Be ashamed you farmers. Cry you vinedressers. The wheat, the barley and the harvest of the field have perished. ¹² The vine and the fig tree fail. The pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field have dried up. Joy has withered away from the sons of men.