Joel 1:2-12 - ESV Bible - Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants...

An Invasion of Locusts

2 ¹Hear this, ²you elders; give ear, ³all inhabitants of the land! ⁴Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

3 ⁵Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

4 What ⁶the cutting locust left, ⁷the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, ⁸the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, ⁹the destroying locust has eaten.

5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and ¹⁰wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of ¹¹the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

6 For ¹²a nation has come up against my land, ¹³powerful and beyond number; ¹⁴its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.

7 It has laid waste my vine and splintered my ¹⁵fig tree; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white.

8 Lament like a virgin^a¹⁶wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.

9 ¹⁷The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. ¹⁸The priests mourn, ¹⁹the ministers of the LORD.

10 The fields are destroyed, ²⁰the ground mourns, because ²¹the grain is destroyed, ²²the wine dries up, the oil languishes.

11 ²³Be ashamed,^b O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, ²⁴because the harvest of the field has perished.

12 The vine dries up; ²⁵the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and ²⁶gladness dries up from the children of man.

Almeida Atualizada (Portuguese) AA

Joel 1:2 Ouvi isto, vós anciãos, e escutai, todos os moradores da terra: Aconteceu isto em vossos dias, ou nos dias de vossos pais?

King James Version KJV

Joel 1:2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

New King James Version NKJV

Joel 1:2 Hear this, you elders, And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has anything like this happened in your days, Or even in the days of your fathers?

Nova Versão Internacional NVIP

Joel 1:2 “Ouçam isto, anciãos;escutem, todos os habitantes do país.Já aconteceu algo assim nos seus dias?Ou nos dias dos seus antepassados?

Joel 1:2-12 ESV