14 The locusts swarmed over the whole land of Egypt and settled on the whole country. Such a huge swarming of locusts had never happened before and would never happen ever again.
15 They covered the whole landscape so that the land turned black with them. They ate all of the land’s grain and all of the orchards’ fruit that the hail had left. Nothing green was left in any orchard or in any grain field in the whole land of Egypt.
16 Pharaoh called urgently for Moses and Aaron and said, "I’ve sinned against the Lord your God and against you.
17 Please forgive my sin this time. Pray to the Lord your God just to take this deathly disaster away from me."
18 So Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord.
19 The Lord turned the wind into a very strong west wind that lifted the locusts and drove them into the Reed Sea. Not a single locust was left in the whole country of Egypt.
20 But the Lord made Pharaoh stubborn so that he wouldn’t let the Israelites go.