Joel 1:2-4

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² Leaders, listen to this message!
    Listen to me, all you people who live in the land.
Has anything like this ever happened in your life?
    Did anything like this happen during your fathers’ lifetime?
³ You will tell these things to your children,
    and your children will tell their children,
    and your grandchildren will tell the people of the next generation.
⁴ What the cutting locust^[a] has left,
    the swarming locust has eaten.
And what the swarming locust has left,
    the hopping locust has eaten.
And what the hopping locust has left,
    the destroying locust has eaten!