1The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel.2Hear this, you elders, and listen, all inhabitants of the land. Has this happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?3Tell it to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children tell another generation.4What the cutting locust has left the swarming locust has eaten, and what the swarming locust has left the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust has left the destroying locust has eaten.5Awake, drunkards, and weep and wail, all drinkers of wine, because the sweet wine has been cut off from your lips.6For a nation has come up against my land, mighty and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its jaws are those of a lioness.7He has made my vine a desolation and my fig tree splinters; he has stripped it bare and thrown it away; its branches have turned white.8Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.9The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the ministers of the LORD, mourn.10The field is laid waste; the ground mourns, for the grain is laid waste, the new wine has dried up, and the oil has failed.11Be ashamed, you farmers; wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and over the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.12The vine has dried up and the fig tree has withered; the pomegranate, the palm, and the apple—all the trees of the field have withered, because rejoicing has perished from the children of man.