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Joel 1:4 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten. "
Joel 1:4
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2 Hear this, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land! Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
3 Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.
4 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.
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Joel 1:1
"The LORD’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel."
Joel 1:2
"Hear this, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land! Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?"
Joel 1:3
"Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation."
Joel 1:5
"Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth."
Joel 1:6
"For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness."
Joel 1:7
"He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white."
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