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.

¹⁵ There the fire^(A) will consume you;
    the sword^(B) will cut you down—
    they will devour you like a swarm of locusts.
Multiply like grasshoppers,
    multiply like locusts!^(C)

¹⁶ You have increased the number of your merchants
    till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts^(A) they strip the land
    and then fly away.