Pro 30:25-27, Joe 2:2-11, 25 | ESV | STEP | the ants are a people not strong , yet they provide their food in the summer ;

25 ^athe ants are a people not strong,
yet they provide their food in the summer;
26 ^bthe rock badgers are a people not mighty,
yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
27 the locusts have no ^cking,
yet all of them march in ^drank;

Joel 2:2-11

2 ^ea day of darkness and gloom,
^fa day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
^ga great and powerful people;
^htheir like has never been before,
nor will be again after them
through the years of all generations.
3 ⁱFire devours before them,
and behind them a flame burns.
The land is like ^jthe garden of Eden before them,
but ^kbehind them a desolate wilderness,
and nothing escapes them.
4 ^lTheir appearance is like the appearance of horses,
and like war horses they run.
5 ^mAs with the rumbling of chariots,
they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of ⁿa flame of fire
devouring the stubble,
^olike a powerful army
drawn up for battle.
6 Before them peoples are in anguish;
^pall faces grow pale.
7 Like warriors they charge;
like soldiers they scale the wall.
They march each on his way;
they do not swerve from their paths.
8 They do not jostle one another;
^qeach marches in his path;
they burst through the weapons
and are not halted.
9 ^rThey leap upon the city,
they run upon the walls,
^sthey climb up into the houses,
^tthey enter through the windows ^ulike a thief.
10 ^vThe earth quakes before them;
the heavens tremble.
^wThe sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
11 ^xThe Lord utters his voice
before ^yhis army,
for his camp is exceedingly great;
^zhe who executes his word is powerful.
^aaFor the day of the Lord is ^abgreat and very awesome;
^acwho can endure it?

Joel 2:25

25 I will restore ^{▼▼Or pay back} to you the years
that ^aethe swarming locust has eaten,
^afthe hopper, ^agthe destroyer, and ^ahthe cutter,
^aimy great army, which I sent among you.