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Hear this ,
you aged men ,
give ear ,
all inhabitants of the land !
Has such a thing happened in your days ,
or in the days of your fathers ?
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Tell your children of it ,
and let your children tell their children ,
and their children another generation .
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What the cutting locust left ,
the swarming locust has eaten .
What the swarming locust left ,
the hopping locust has eaten ,
and what the hopping locust left ,
the destroying locust has eaten .
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Awake ,
you drunkards ,
and weep ;
and wail ,
all you drinkers of wine ,
because of the sweet wine ,
for it is cut off from your mouth .
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For a nation has come up against my land ,
powerful and without number ;
its teeth are lions '
teeth ,
and it has the fangs of a lioness .
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It has laid waste my vines ,
and splintered my fig trees ;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down ;
their branches are made white .
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Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth .
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The cereal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD .
The priests mourn ,
the ministers of the LORD .
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The fields are laid waste ,
the ground mourns ;
because the grain is destroyed ,
the wine fails ,
the oil languishes .
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Be confounded ,
O tillers of the soil ,
wail ,
O vinedressers ,
for the wheat and the barley ;
because the harvest of the field has perished .
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The vine withers ,
the fig tree languishes .
Pomegranate ,
palm ,
and apple ,
all the trees of the field are withered ;
and gladness fails from the sons of men .