Joel 1:1-4

1The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel.

An Invasion of Locusts 2Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?

3Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

4What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain. have eaten.