Tell your children about it,
and have your children tell their children,
and their children, another generation.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Joel 1:3 in context
Joel 1:1–6
1
The LORD’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
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
Selected verse
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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