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.
5. Drunks, wake up and cry!All of you people who drink wine, cry!Cry because your sweet winehas been taken away from you.
6. A powerful nation has come into my land.It has too many soldiers to count.It has teeth like a lion.And it has fangs like a female lion.
7. That army has eaten my grapevines.It has destroyed my fig trees.It has eaten the bark off my treesand left the branches white.
8. Cry as a young woman crieswhen the man she was going to marry is killed.