Joel 1:3
Tell it to your children;
What it says
The people are told to recount this disaster to their children across successive generations.
What it is doing
This verse gives the catastrophe a memorial function, making it part of covenant memory.
In context
1This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel: 2Hear this, O elders; 3Tell it to your children; 4What the devouring locust has left, 5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; 6For a nation has invaded My land, 7It has laid waste My grapevine