15. They covered the ground until it was black with them; they ate everything that the hail had left, including all the fruit on the trees. Not a green thing was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
16. Then the king hurriedly called Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you.
17. Now forgive my sin this once and pray to the Lord your God to take away this fatal punishment from me.”
18. Moses left the king and prayed to the Lord.
19. And the Lord changed the east wind into a very strong west wind, which picked up the locusts and blew them into the Gulf of Suez. Not one locust was left in all Egypt.
20. But the Lord made the king stubborn, and he did not let the Israelites go.
21. The Lord then said to Moses, “Raise your hand towards the sky, and a darkness thick enough to be felt will cover the land of Egypt.”