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Joel 1:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Joel 1:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Lament over the Ruin of the Country
2 Hear this, O elders,
give ear, all inhabitants of the land!
Has such a thing happened in your days,
or in the days of your ancestors?
3 Tell your children of it,
and let your children tell their children,
and their children another generation.
4 What the cutting locust left,
the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
the destroying locust has eaten.
Joel 1:2-4
New International Version
Joel 1:2-4
New International Version
An Invasion of Locusts
2 Hear this,(A) you elders;(B)
listen, all who live in the land.(C)
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
or in the days of your ancestors?(D)
3 Tell it to your children,(E)
and let your children tell it to their children,
and their children to the next generation.(F)
4 What the locust(G) swarm has left
the great locusts have eaten;
what the great locusts have left
the young locusts have eaten;
what the young locusts have left(H)
other locusts[a] have eaten.(I)
Footnotes
- Joel 1:4 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.
Joel 1:2-4
King James Version
Joel 1:2-4
King James Version
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?
3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
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Joel 1:2-4
New King James Version
Joel 1:2-4
New King James Version
The Land Laid Waste(A)
2 Hear this, you elders,
And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land!
(B)Has anything like this happened in your days,
Or even in the days of your fathers?
3 (C)Tell your children about it,
Let your children tell their children,
And their children another generation.
4 (D)What the chewing [a]locust left, the (E)swarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.
Footnotes
- Joel 1:4 Exact identity of these locusts unknown
Joel 1:2-4
International Standard Version
Joel 1:2-4
International Standard Version
2 “Hear this, you elders!
Listen, all of you residents of the land!
Has there ever been anything like this during your lifetime,[a]
or even when your ancestors were alive?[b]
3 Pass it on to your children,
and from[c] your children to their children,
and from[d] their children to the following generation.
4 Whatever the devouring locust left behind
the locust swarm has consumed!
Whatever the locust swarm has left behind,
the young locust[e] has consumed!
Whatever the young locust[f] has left behind,
the ravaging locust has consumed!”
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