1. This is the Lord's message to Joel son of Pethuel.
2. Pay attention, you older people;everyone in Judah, listen.Has anything like this ever happenedin your time or the time of your ancestors?
3. Tell your children about it;they will tell their children,who in turn will tell the next generation.
4. Swarm after swarm of locusts settled on the crops;what one swarm left, the next swarm devoured.
5. Wake up and weep, you drunkards;cry, you wine drinkers;the grapes for making new wine have been destroyed.