The Plague of Locusts

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs of mine among them

If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.

And the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.”

So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the Lord made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts;

they invaded all Egypt and settled down in every area of the country in great numbers. Never before had there been such a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again.

And the Lord changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which caught up the locusts and carried them into the Red Sea. Not a locust was left anywhere in Egypt.

Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper.

You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it.

The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.

“When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,

“When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when enemies besiege them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,

“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,

Do you make it leap like a locust, striking terror with its proud snorting?

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.

He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number;

I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks;

Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.

They will chop down her forest,” declares the Lord, “dense though it be. They are more numerous than locusts, they cannot be counted.

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

“Lift up a banner in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations for battle against her; summon against her these kingdoms: Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander against her; send up horses like a swarm of locusts.

An Invasion of Locusts

Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?

What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten.