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1 This message from the LORD came to Pethuel's son Joel. 2 |Hear this, you elders! Listen, all of you residents of the land! Has there ever been anything like this during your lifetime, or even when your ancestors were alive? 3 Pass it on to your children, and from your children to their children, and from their children to the following generation. 4 Whatever the devouring locust left behind the locust swarm has consumed! Whatever the locust swarm has left behind, the young locust has consumed! Whatever the young locust has left behind, the ravaging locust has consumed!| 5 |Wake up, you drunkards! Cry aloud and howl, you wine drinkers, because your supply of new wine has been snatched from you. 6 Indeed, a nation has invaded my land— it is strong and its population is too large to count — with teeth like a lion and fangs like a lioness. 7 That nation laid waste my vines, and stripped bare my fig tree, discarding it. It stripped off its bark. Joel 1:1-7, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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