1:2 Listen to this, you elders; ¹ 

pay attention, ²  all inhabitants of the land.

Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life ³ 

or in the lifetime ⁴  of your ancestors? ⁵ 

1:3 Tell your children ⁶  about it,

have your children tell their children,

and their children the following generation. ⁷ 

1:4 What the gazam-locust left the ‘arbeh-locust consumed, ⁸ 

what the ‘arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed,

and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed! ⁹