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¹ The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. ² Or even in the days of your fathers? ³ And their children another generation. ⁴ And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten. ⁵ For it has been cut off from your mouth. ⁶ And he has the fangs of a fierce lion. ⁷ Its branches are made white. ⁸ For the husband of her youth. ⁹ The priests mourn, who minister to the Lord. ¹⁰ The oil fails. ¹¹ Because the harvest of the field has perished. ¹² Surely joy has withered away from the sons of men. ¹³ Are withheld from the house of your God. ¹⁴ And cry out to the Lord. ¹⁵ It shall come as destruction from the Almighty. ¹⁶ Joy and gladness from the house of our God? ¹⁷ For the grain has withered. ¹⁸ Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment. ¹⁹ And a flame has burned all the trees of the field. ²⁰ And fire has devoured the open pastures.