Joel 1:4

What is left of the palmer-worm, eaten hath the locust, And what is left of the locust, Eaten hath the cankerworm, And what is left of the cankerworm, Eaten hath the caterpillar.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

3Concerning it to your sons talk ye, And your sons to their sons, And their sons to another generation.

5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, And howl all drinking wine, because of the juice, For it hath been cut off from your mouth.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:4for if thou art refusing to send My people away, lo, I am bringing in to-morrow the locust into thy border,

Exodus 10:14And the locust goeth up against all the land of Egypt, and resteth in all the border of Egypt — very grievous: before it there hath not been such a locust as it, and after it there is none such;

Deuteronomy 28:38'Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;

1 Kings 8:37'Famine — when it is in the land; pestilence — when it is; blasting, mildew, locust; caterpillar — when it is; when its enemy hath distressed it in the land [in] its gates, any plague, any sickness, —

2 Chronicles 7:13If I restrain the heavens and there is no rain, and if I lay charge on the locust to consume the land, and if I send pestilence among My people —

Psalms 105:34He hath said, and the locust cometh, And the cankerworm — innumerable,

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 →

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