Joel 1:4
That which the palmer-worm has left the locust has eaten, and that which the locust has left the canker-worm has eaten, and that which the canker-worm has left the caterpillar has eaten.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3Tell ye your sons of it, and [let] your sons [tell] their sons, and their sons another generation.
Cross References
Exodus 10:4Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into thy border.
Exodus 10:14And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt, very grievous were they, before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.
1 Kings 8:37If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight, mildew, locust [or] caterpillar, if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there be,
2 Chronicles 7:13If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people,
Psalms 105:34He spoke, and the locust came, and the grasshopper, and that without number,
Matthew Henry on Joel 1:2-8
Joel We are altogether uncertain concerning the time when this prophet prophesied; it is probable that it was about the same time Amos prophesied, not for the reason that the rabbin give, "Because Amos begins his prophecy with that wherewith Joel concludes his, The Lord shall roar out of Zion, " but for the reason Dr. Lightfoot gives, "Because he speaks of the same judgments of locusts, and drought, and fire, that Amos laments, which is an intimation that they appeared about the same time, Amos in Israel and Joel… Read the whole commentary →