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 ?
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Tell ye your children of it ,
and let your children tell their children ,
and their children another generation .
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That which the palmerworm 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 caterpiller eaten .
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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 .
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For a nation is come up upon my land ,
strong ,
and without number ,
whose teeth are the teeth of a lion ,
and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion .
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He hath laid my vine waste ,
and barked my fig tree :
he hath made it clean bare ,
and cast it away ;
the branches thereof are made white .
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Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth .
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The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD ;
the priests ,
the LORD '
S ministers ,
mourn .
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The field is wasted ,
the land mourneth ;
for the corn is wasted :
the new wine is dried up ,
the oil languisheth .
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Be ye ashamed ,
O ye husbandmen ;
howl ,
O ye vinedressers ,
for the wheat and for the barley ;
because the harvest of the field is perished .
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The vine is dried up ,
and the fig tree languisheth ;
the pomegranate tree ,
the palm tree also ,
and the apple tree ,
even all the trees of the field ,
are withered :
because joy is withered away from the sons of men .