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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Joel 1:6 in context
Joel 1:3–9
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
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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.
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.
8
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth
for the husband of her youth!
9
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house.
The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
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