⁴ What the locust^(A) swarm has left
    the great locusts have eaten;
what the great locusts have left
    the young locusts have eaten;
what the young locusts have left^(B)
    other locusts^[a] have eaten.^(C)

² Hear this,^(A) you elders;^(B)
    listen, all who live in the land.^(C)
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
    or in the days of your ancestors?^(D)