Joel 1:1-4

The Lord sent a message through Joel, son of Pethuel.

Listen to this, elders; pay attention, everyone who lives in the land. Has anything ever happened like this before in your experience, or that of your forefathers?

Tell your children about it, and have your children tell it to their children, and their children tell the next generation.

What the cutting locusts left, the swarming locusts have eaten; what the swarming locusts left, the hopping locusts have eaten; what the hopping locusts left, the destroying locusts have eaten.