Joel 1:4-6

International Children’s Bible

⁴What 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^[a] have eaten.

⁵Drunks, wake up and cry!
    All of you people who drink wine, cry!
Cry because your sweet wine
    has been taken away from you.
⁶A 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.

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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. In this destruction by locusts, Joel sees a warning. God will cause this type of destruction when he punishes his people.