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Joel 1:3-5
International Standard Version
Joel 1:3-5
International Standard Version
3 Pass it on to your children,
and from[a] your children to their children,
and from[b] 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[c] has consumed!
Whatever the young locust[d] has left behind,
the ravaging locust has consumed!”
A Call to Mourning
5 “Wake up, you drunkards!
Cry aloud and howl, you wine drinkers,
because your supply of new wine has been snatched from you.[e]
Joel 1:3-5
New International Version
Joel 1:3-5
New International Version
3 Tell it to your children,(A)
and let your children tell it to their children,
and their children to the next generation.(B)
4 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)
Footnotes
- Joel 1:4 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.
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