2 Hear this ye old men and give ear all ye inhabitants of the land Hath this been in your days or even in the days of your fathers
3 Tell ye your children of it and let your children tell their children and their children another generation
4 That which the palmerworm 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 caterpiller 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 whose teeth are the teeth of a lion and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion
7 He hath laid my vine waste and barked my fig tree he hath made it clean bare and cast it away the branches thereof are made white
8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth
9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD the priests the LORD'S ministers mourn
10 The field is wasted the land mourneth for the corn is wasted the new wine is dried up the oil languisheth
11 Be ye ashamed O ye husbandmen howl O ye vinedressers for the wheat and for the barley because the harvest of the field is perished
12 The vine is dried up and the fig tree languisheth the pomegranate tree the palm tree also and the apple tree even all the trees of the field are withered because joy is withered away from the sons of men
13 Gird yourselves and lament ye priests howl ye ministers of the altar come lie all night in sackcloth ye ministers of my God for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God
14 Sanctify ye a fast call a solemn assembly gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God and cry unto the LORD
15 Alas for the day for the day of the LORD is at hand and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come
16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes yea joy and gladness from the house of our God
17 The seed is rotten under their clods the garners are laid desolate the barns are broken down for the corn is withered
18 How do the beasts groan the herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture yea the flocks of sheep are made desolate
19 O LORD to thee will I cry for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field
20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee for the rivers of waters are dried up and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness
