And now whereas my father did burden you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father has chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will add more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
And answered them according to the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with you, and you dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
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.
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.
Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your captains like the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
And the shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads were something like crowns with the appearance of gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.