1:4 What the gazam-locust left the ‘arbeh-locust consumed, 1
what the ‘arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed,
and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed! 2
1:5 Wake up, you drunkards, 3 and weep!
Wail, all you wine drinkers, 4
because the sweet wine 5 has been taken away 6 from you. 7
1:6 For a nation 8 has invaded 9 our 10 land.
There are so many of them they are too numerous to count. 11
Their teeth are like those 12 of a lion;
they tear apart their prey like a lioness. 13
1:7 They 14 have destroyed our 15 vines; 16
they have turned our 17 fig trees into mere splinters.
They have completely stripped off the bark 18 and thrown them aside;
the 19 twigs are stripped bare. 20
1:11 Be distressed, 21 farmers;
wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley.
For the harvest of the field has perished.