So the Lord shifted the wind to a violent west wind which lifted up the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust remained within the border of Egypt.

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

“You will bring out a great quantity of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locusts will consume it.

The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground.

“If there is famine in the land, or if there is pestilence (plague), blight, mildew, migratory locusts, or grasshoppers, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever affliction or plague, whatever sickness [there is],

“Have you [Job] made him leap like a locust?
The majesty of his snorting [nostrils] is terrible.

He also gave their crops to the grasshopper,
And the fruit of their labor to the locust.

I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades;
I am shaken off like the locust.

What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten;
And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten;
And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten [in judgment of Judah].

“And I will compensate you for the years
That the swarming locust has eaten,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust—
My great army which I sent among you.

“I wounded you with blight [from the hot, blasting east wind] and with mildew;
And the caterpillar devoured
Your many gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees;
Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the Lord.

You have increased your traders more than the [visible] stars of heaven—
The creeping locust strips and destroys and then flies away.