What did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing [entirely unsuited for the harsh desert]? Those who wear soft clothing are in the palaces of kings!

They answered him, “He was a hairy man with a [wide] leather band bound around his loins.” And Ahaziah said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”

And in that day the [false] prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not wear a hairy robe [of true prophets] in order to deceive,

“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord.

John wore clothing made of camel’s hair and had a [wide] leather band around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous [which is to seek and submit to the will of God]—in order to make ready a people [perfectly] prepared [spiritually and morally] for the Lord.”

And I will grant authority to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days (forty-two months; three and one-half years), dressed in sackcloth.”

And his

For John came neither eating nor drinking [with others], and they say, ‘He has a demon!’

Of these you may eat: the whole species of migratory locust, of bald locust, of cricket, and of grasshopper.

Wild

“He made him (Israel) ride on the high places of the earth,
And he ate the produce of the field;
And He made him suck honey from the rock,
And [olive] oil from the flinty rock,

All the people of the land came to a forest, and there was honey on the ground.

General references

Of these you may eat: the whole species of migratory locust, of bald locust, of cricket, and of grasshopper.

He will turn many of the sons of Israel back [from sin] to [love and serve] the Lord their God.