Joel 1:4–9

4 What the agnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten;

And what the bswarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten;

And what the creeping locust has left, the cstripping locust has eaten.

5 Awake, adrunkards, and weep;

And wail, all you wine drinkers,

On account of the sweet wine

That is bcut off from your mouth.

6 For a anation has 1invaded my land,

Mighty and without number;

bIts teeth are the teeth of a lion,

And it has the fangs of a lioness.

7 It has amade my vine a waste

And my fig tree 1splinters.

It has stripped them bare and cast them away;

Their branches have become white.

8 aWail like a virgin bgirded with sackcloth

For the bridegroom of her youth.

9 The agrain offering and the drink offering are cut off

From the house of the Lord.

The bpriests mourn,

The ministers of the Lord.