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Joel 1:2-4
Contemporary English Version

Locusts Cover the Land

2 Listen, you leaders
and everyone else
    in the land.
Has anything like this
    ever happened before?
3 Tell our children!
Let it be told
    to our grandchildren
    and their children too.

4 Swarm after swarm of locusts[a]
has attacked our crops,
    eating everything in sight.

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Footnotes

  1. 1.4 Swarm … locusts: The Hebrew text lists either four kinds of locusts or locusts in four stages of their development. Locusts are a type of grasshopper that comes in swarms and causes great damage to plant life.
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