1. The Lord spoke his word to Joel son of Pethuel:
2. Elders, listen to this message.Listen to me, all you who live in the land.Nothing like this has ever happened during your lifetimeor during your ancestors’ lifetimes.
3. Tell your children about these things,let your children tell their children,and let your grandchildren tell their children.
4. What the cutting locusts have left,the swarming locusts have eaten;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 you people who drink wine, cry!Cry because your winehas been taken away from your mouths.