Joel 1:4-6

New Century Version

⁴What 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^[a] have eaten.

⁵Drunks, wake up and cry!
    All you people who drink wine, cry!
Cry because your wine
    has been taken away from your mouths.
⁶A powerful nation has come into my land
    with too many soldiers to count.
It has teeth like a lion,
    jaws like a female lion.

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Footnotes

1:4 cutting . . . locusts These are different names for an insect like a large grasshopper. The locust can quickly destroy trees, plants, and crops, and in this destruction, Joel sees a warning. God will cause this type of destruction when he punishes his people.