Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.

The heifers decay in their stalls. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

The earth was moved before his face; the heavens trembled: the sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars took away their shining:

Between the colonnade and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep. And let them say, "Take pity, Yahweh, on your people. Do not make your inheritance a reproach, a byword among [the] nations. Why should they say among the nations, 'Where [is] their God?'"

Then Yahweh became jealous for his land and took pity on his people.

For take heed: in those days and at the same time, when I turn again the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem,

I will gather all the nations
and take them to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
I will enter into judgment with them there
because of My people, My inheritance Israel.
The nations have scattered the Israelites
in foreign countries
and divided up My land.

In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.

The sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars took away their shining.