3. Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation:
4. that which the palmer-worm 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 caterpillar eaten.
5. Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.
6. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number: his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a lioness.
7. He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white.
8. Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9. The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.