Joel 1:4
What the devouring locust has left,
What it says
Successive waves of locusts consume everything left behind by the previous swarm.
What it is doing
This verse presents the devastation as thorough, layered, and unstoppable.
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