1:4 What the gazam-locust left the ‘arbeh-locust consumed, 1
what the ‘arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed,
and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed! 2
1:5 Wake up, you drunkards, 3 and weep!
Wail, all you wine drinkers, 4
because the sweet wine 5 has been taken away 6 from you. 7
1:6 For a nation 8 has invaded 9 our 10 land.
There are so many of them they are too numerous to count. 11
Their teeth are like those 12 of a lion;
they tear apart their prey like a lioness. 13
1:7 They 14 have destroyed our 15 vines; 16
they have turned our 17 fig trees into mere splinters.
They have completely stripped off the bark 18 and thrown them aside;
the 19 twigs are stripped bare. 20
2:2 It will be 21 a day of dreadful darkness, 22
a day of foreboding storm clouds, 23
like blackness 24 spread over the mountains.
It is a huge and powerful army 25 –
there has never been anything like it ever before,
and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come! 26
2:3 Like fire they devour everything in their path; 27
a flame blazes behind them.
The land looks like the Garden of Eden 28 before them,
but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness –
for nothing escapes them! 29
2:4 They look like horses; 30
they charge ahead like war horses.
4:7 So God sent 31 a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.