Joel 1 (New Century Version)  View In My Bible 1 2 Older
leaders, listen to this message. Listen to me, all you who live
in the land. Nothing like this has ever happened during your
lifetime or during your ancestors' lifetimes. 3 Tell your
children about these things, let your children tell their
children, and let your grandchildren tell their children. 4 What
the cutting locusts have left, the swarming locusts have eaten;
what the swarming locusts have left, the hopping locusts have
eaten, and what the hopping locusts have left, the destroying
locustsn have eaten. 5 Drunks, wake up and cry! All you people
who drink wine, cry! Cry because your wine has been taken away
from your mouths. 6 A powerful nation has come into my land with
too many soldiers to count. It has teeth like a lion, jaws like
a female lion. 7 It has made my grapevine a waste and made my
fig tree a stump. It has stripped all the bark off my trees and
left the branches white. 8 Cry as a young woman cries when the
man she was going to marry ha