1. The Lord spoke his word to Joel son of Pethuel:
2. Elders, listen to this message.Listen to me, all you people who live in the land.Nothing like this has ever happened during your lifetime.Nothing like this has ever happened during your fathers’ lifetimes.
3. Tell your children about these things.And let your children tell their children.And let your grandchildren tell their children.
4. What the cutting locusts have not eaten,the swarming locusts have eaten.And what the swarming locusts have left,the hopping locusts have eaten.And what the hopping locusts have left,the destroying locusts have eaten.