Joel 1:6

Contemporary English Version 1995

A powerful nation with countless troops has invaded our land. They have the teeth and jaws of powerful lions.

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I, the Lord your God, will make up for the losses caused by those swarms and swarms of locusts I sent to attack you.

others are so greedy that they gobble up the poor and homeless.

and you will have to leave the land of the Lord. Some of you will go to Egypt; others will go to Assyria and eat unclean food.

and to the happy homes in Jerusalem. The land of my people is covered with thorns.

Enemy soldiers will cover Judah like a flood reaching up to your neck. But God is with us. He will spread his wings and protect our land.

flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt.