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The LORD gave this message to Joel son of Pethuel.
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Hear this, you leaders of the people. Listen, all who live in the land. In all your history, has anything like this happened before?
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Tell your children about it in the years to come, and let your children tell their children. Pass the story down from generation to generation.
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After the cutting locusts finished eating the crops, the swarming locusts took what was left! After them came the hopping locusts, and then the stripping locusts, too!
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Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine-drinkers! All the grapes are ruined, and all your sweet wine is gone.
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A vast army of locusts has invaded my land, a terrible army too numerous to count. Its teeth are like lions’ teeth, its fangs like those of a lioness.