There shall the fire devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the young locust: make yourself numerous like the young locust, make yourself many like the locusts.
That which the creeping worm has left has the locust eaten; and that which the locust has left has the young locust eaten; and that which the young locust has left has the caterpiller eaten.
And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the young locust, and the caterpiller, and the creeping locust, my great army which I sent among you.
Thus has the Lord GOD shown me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the springing up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions: and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.