September 21: Joel 1–3

Joel 1–3 Joel 1–3 (Listen) 1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: An Invasion of Locusts 2   Hear this, you elders;<br />    give ear, all inhabitants of the land!<br />  Has such a thing happened in your days,<br />    or in the days of your fathers?<br />3   Tell your children of it,<br />    and let your children tell their children,<br />    and their children to another generation.<br /> 4   What the cutting locust left,<br />    the swarming locust has eaten.<br />  What the swarming locust left,<br />    the hopping locust has eaten,<br />  and what the hopping locust left,<br />    the destroying locust has eaten.<br /> 5   Awake, you drunkards, and weep,<br />    and wail, all you drinkers of wine,<br />  because of the sweet wine,<br />    for it is cut off from your mouth.<br />6   For a nation has come up against my land,<br />    powerful and beyond number;<br />