² “Hear this, you elders!
Listen, all of you residents of the land!

Has there ever been anything like this during your lifetime,^[a]
    or even when your ancestors were alive?^[b]
3 Pass it on to your children,
    and from^[c] your children to their children,
        and from^[d] their children to the following generation.
⁴ Whatever the devouring locust left behind
    the locust swarm has consumed!
Whatever the locust swarm has left behind,
    the young locust^[e] has consumed!
Whatever the young locust^[f] has left behind,
    the ravaging locust has consumed!”