¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, ^(A)“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

The Eighth Plague: Locusts

10 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them, ² and ^(A)that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, ^(B)that you may know that I am the Lord.”

⁹ Then the Lord said to Moses, ^(A)“Pharaoh will not listen to you, that ^(B)my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

¹⁷ And ^(A)I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and ^(B)I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.