Joel 1:6

Joel 1:6

4 ^aWhat the chewing¹ locust left, the ^bswarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.

5 Awake, you ^adrunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
^bFor it has been cut off from your mouth.

6 For ^aa nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
^bHis teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a¹ fierce lion.

7 He has ^alaid waste My vine,
And¹ ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.

8 ^aLament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For ^bthe husband of her youth.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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A nation - An innumerable multitude of locusts and caterpillars, called a nation here, as Solomon calls the conies and the ant, Proverbs 30:25-26, and perhaps a prognostick of a very numerous and mighty nation, that ere long will invade Judah. Strong - Mighty in power, and undaunted in courage, if you refer it to the Assyrian or Babylonians; if to those vermin, they are, though each weak by itself, yet in those multitudes, strong and irresistible. A great lion - Such waste as lions make, these the locusts do, and the Assyrians will make.

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