Joel:1:2-12

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* Hear this , ye old men , and give ear , all ye inhabitants of the land . Hath this been in your days , or even in the days of your fathers ? * Tell your children of it , and [let ] your children [tell ] their children , and their children another generation : * that which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten ; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten ; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten . * Awake , ye drunkards , and weep ; and howl , all ye drinkers of wine , because of the new wine : for it is cut off from your mouth . * For a nation is come up upon my land , strong and without number : his teeth are the teeth of a lion , and he hath the cheek teeth of a lioness . * He hath made my vine a desolation , and barked my fig-tree ; he hath made it clean bare , and cast it away : its branches are made white . * Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth . * The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah ; the priests , Jehovah 's ministers , mourn . * The field is laid waste , the land mourneth ; for the corn is wasted , the new wine is dried up , the oil languisheth . * Be ashamed , ye husbandmen ; howl , ye vinedressers , for the wheat and for the barley : because the harvest of the field hath perished . * The vine is dried up , and the fig-tree languisheth ; the pomegranate-tree , the palm also and the apple-tree ; all the trees of the field are withered , yea , joy is withered away from the children of men .

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