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Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. That which [a]the palmer-worm hath left hath [b]the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath [c]the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath [d]the caterpillar eaten.

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:4 Probably, different kinds of locusts, or locusts in different stages of growth.
  2. Joel 1:4 Probably, different kinds of locusts, or locusts in different stages of growth.
  3. Joel 1:4 Probably, different kinds of locusts, or locusts in different stages of growth.
  4. Joel 1:4 Probably, different kinds of locusts, or locusts in different stages of growth.

Tell it to your children,(A)
    and let your children tell it to their children,
    and their children to the next generation.(B)
What the locust(C) 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(D)
    other locusts[a] have eaten.(E)

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
    Wail, all you drinkers of wine;(F)
wail because of the new wine,
    for it has been snatched(G) from your lips.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:4 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.