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.

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.

⁴ Your plunder,^(A) O nations, is harvested^(B) as by young locusts;^(C)
    like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.

⁴⁶ He gave their crops to the grasshopper,^(A)
    their produce to the locust.^(B)

¹⁴ The Lord Almighty has sworn by himself:^(A)
    I will surely fill you with troops, as with a swarm of locusts,^(B)
    and they will shout^(C) in triumph over you.

³⁴ He spoke,^(A) and the locusts came,^(B)
    grasshoppers^(C) without number;^(D)