15. They covered the surface of the whole land so that the land was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green was left on the trees or the plants in the field throughout the land of Egypt.
16. Pharaoh urgently sent for Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God and against you.
17. Please forgive my sin once more and make an appeal to Yahweh your God, so that He will take this death away from me.”
18. Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and appealed to the Lord.
19. Then the Lord changed the wind to a strong west wind, and it carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.
20. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the Israelites go.
21. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”
22. So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.