^{2 Ref} Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

^{3 Ref} Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

^{4 Ref} What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.