<p class="poetry">He ordered locusts to come,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">innumerable grasshoppers.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Then I thought, &#8216;I will die in my own home,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my days as numerous as the grains of sand.<n id="2" />p>

I will greatly multiply your descendants,&#8221; the <sc>Lord&#8217;sc>s angel added,<n id="1" /> &#8220;so that they will be too numerous to count.&#8221;<n id="2" />

But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring<n id="1" /> locusts<n id="2" /> into your territory<n id="3" /> tomorrow.

<p class="poetry">To the woman he said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will greatly increase<n id="1" /> your labor pains;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">with pain you will give birth to children.p> <p class="poetry">You will want to control your husband,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">but he will dominate<n id="4" /> you.&#8221;p>

When they invaded<n id="1" /> with their cattle and tents, they were as thick<n id="2" /> as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted.<n id="3" /> They came to devour<n id="4" /> the land.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them:<n id="1" /> I will multiply their people like sheep.<n id="2" />

I will indeed bless you,<n id="1" /> and I will greatly multiply<n id="2" /> your descendants<n id="3" /> so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession<n id="4" /> of the strongholds<n id="5" /> of their enemies.

The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory<n id="1" /> of Egypt. It was very severe;<n id="2" /> there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again.<n id="3" />

and the <sc>Lordsc> turned a very strong west wind,<n id="1" /> and it picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea.<n id="2" /> Not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, &#8216;I will multiply your descendants<n id="1" /> like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about<n id="2" /> I will give to your descendants,<n id="3" /> and they will inherit it forever.&#8217;&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust<n id="1" /> invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land,<n id="2" /> or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust<n id="1" /> invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land,<n id="2" /> or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

I will make the children who follow one another in the line of my servant David very numerous. I will also make the Levites who minister before me very numerous. I will make them all as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands which are on the seashore.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>