1. The Devar Hashem that came to Yoel Ben Petuel:
2. Hear this, ye zekenim, and give ear, all ye yoshvei ha'aretz (inhabitants of the land). Hath anything like this been in your days, or even in the days of your avot (fathers)?
3. Tell ye your banim (children) of it, and let your banim tell their banim, and their banim to the next generation.
4. That which the locust swarm hath left hath the arbeh (great locust) eaten; and that which the arbeh hath left hath the crawling locust eaten; and that which the crawling locust hath left hath the other locust eaten.
5. Awake, ye shikkorim (drunkards), and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of yayin, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
6. For a Goy is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of an aryeh (lion), and he hath the fangs of a lioness.
7. He hath laid my gefen (vine) waste, and barked my teenah (fig tree); he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
8. Lament like a betulah girded with sackcloth for the ba'al (husband) of her youth.
9. The minchah and the nesekh is cut off from the Beis Hashem; the kohanim, the mesharetim (ministers) of Hashem, mourn.
10. The sadeh (field) is wasted, the adamah (land) mourneth; for the grain is wasted; the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
11. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen [i.e., farmers]; wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the katzir (harvest) of the sadeh is perished.