Joel 1:6-8

Good News Translation

^6 (A)An army of locusts has attacked our land;
    they are powerful and too many to count;
    their teeth are as sharp as those of a lion.
⁷ They have destroyed our grapevines
    and chewed up our fig trees.
They have stripped off the bark,
    till the branches are white.

⁸ Cry, you people, like a young woman who mourns the death
    of the man she was going to marry.