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"You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it. Verse ConceptsLocustsPlanting Seeds

"The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs. Verse ConceptsCaterpillarsInsectsLocustsMildewHelp In ShortageNations Attacking Israel

Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts! Verse ConceptsPlunderingHarvestCaterpillarsLocusts

When I close up the sky so that it doesn't rain, or command locusts to devour the land's vegetation, or send a plague among my people, Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTClosing Up

What the gazam-locust left the 'arbeh-locust consumed, what the 'arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed, and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed! Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you. For a nation has invaded our land. There are so many of them they are too numerous to count. Their teeth are like those of a lion; they tear apart their prey like a lioness. read more.
They have destroyed our vines; they have turned our fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown them aside; the twigs are stripped bare.

Now the locusts looked like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were something like crowns similar to gold, and their faces looked like men's faces. They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle. read more.
They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails.

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