This invasion of locusts destroys everything—the fields of grain, the vineyards, the gardens and the trees. Joel symbolically describes the locusts as a marching human army and views all of this as divine judgment coming against the nation for her sins.
Uvamizi huu wa nzige unaharibu kila kitu-mashamba ya ngano, na mizabibu, mabustani na miti. Yoeli kwa mfano anaeleza kuhusu nzige kuwa kama jeshi la binadamu linalotembea na anaoni haya yote kama hukumu takatifu ya Mungu inayokuja dhidi ya taifa kwa ajili ya dhambi yake.