⁹ “Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,
    destroying them with blight and mildew.^(A)
Locusts^(B) devoured your fig and olive trees,^(C)
    yet you have not returned^(D) to me,”
declares the Lord.

²⁵ “I will repay you for the years the locusts^(A) have eaten^(B)—
    the great locust and the young locust,
    the other locusts and the locust swarm^[a]—
my great army^(C) that I sent among you.

³ Before them fire^(A) devours,
    behind them a flame blazes.
Before them the land is like the garden of Eden,^(B)
    behind them, a desert waste^(C)—
    nothing escapes them.

¹⁰ A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath^[a] of wine;
    a homer^[b] of seed will yield only an ephah^[c] of grain.”^(A)