Joel 1:5

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?

Tell your children about it,

and have your children tell their children,

and their children, another generation.

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.

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.

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.

Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth

for the husband of her youth!