13. So Moses stretched out his shepherd’s rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord made an east wind blow over the land all that day and all that night. When morning came, the east wind had carried in the locusts.
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.