1:1The Word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten. Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness. and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up,