² Hear this,^(A) you elders;^(B)
    listen, all who live in the land.^(C)
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
    or in the days of your ancestors?^(D)
3 Tell it to your children,^(E)
    and let your children tell it to their children,
    and their children to the next generation.^(F)
4 What the locust^(G) swarm has left
    the great locusts have eaten;
what the great locusts have left
    the young locusts have eaten;
what the young locusts have left^(H)
    other locusts^[a] have eaten.^(I)

³ Because of this the land dries up,^(A)
    and all who live in it waste away;^(B)
the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
    and the fish in the sea are swept away.^(C)