Joel 1:1-7 ▼

1 The word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:

2 Hear this, O elders, And give ear, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days Or in your fathers’ days?

3 Recount about it to your sons, And let your sons recount about it to their sons, And their sons to the next generation.

4 What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has consumed; And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has consumed; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has consumed.

5 Awake, drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you wine drinkers, On account of the sweet wine That is cut off from your mouth.

6 For a nation has come up against my land, Mighty and without number; Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, And it has the fangs of a lioness.

7 It has made my vine a desolation And my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; Their branches have become white.