Joel 1:3

1:3 Tell your children about it,

have your children tell their children,

and their children the following generation.

Joel 1:7-8

1:7 They have destroyed our vines;

they have turned our fig trees into mere splinters.

They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown them aside;

the twigs are stripped bare.

A Call to Lament

1:8 Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth,

lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.