The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

 2 Hear this, ye ^aold men, and give ear, all ye ^binhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

 3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

 4 ^aThat which the ^apalmerworm hath left hath the ^blocust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

 5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is ^acut off from your mouth.

 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without ^anumber, whose ^bteeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

 7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the ^ahusband of her youth.

 9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn.

 10 The field is wasted, the ^aland mourneth; for the ^bcorn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

 11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.