Joe 1:4-7, 2:2-4, Jon 4:7 | ESV | STEP | What the cutting locust left , the swarming locust has eaten . What the swarming locust left , the hopping locust has eaten , and what the hopping locust left , the destroying locust has eaten .

Joel 1:4-7

4 What ^athe cutting locust left,
^bthe swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
^cthe hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
^dthe destroying locust has eaten.
5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
and ^ewail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of ^fthe sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For ^ga nation has come up against my land,
^hpowerful and beyond number;
ⁱits teeth are lions’ teeth,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has laid waste my vine
and splintered my ^jfig tree;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
their branches are made white.

Joel 2:2-4

2 ^ka day of darkness and gloom,
^la day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
^ma great and powerful people;
ⁿtheir like has never been before,
nor will be again after them
through the years of all generations.
3 ^oFire devours before them,
and behind them a flame burns.
The land is like ^pthe garden of Eden before them,
but ^qbehind them a desolate wilderness,
and nothing escapes them.
4 ^rTheir appearance is like the appearance of horses,
and like war horses they run.

Jonah 4:7

7 But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered.