14. The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory of Egypt. It was very severe; there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again.
15. They covered the surface of all the ground, so that the ground became dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the ground and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on the trees or on anything that grew in the fields throughout the whole land of Egypt.
16. Then Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you!
17. So now, forgive my sin this time only, and pray to the Lord your God that he would only take this death away from me.”
18. Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord,
19. and the Lord turned a very strong west wind, and it picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.
20. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.
21. The Lord said to Moses, “Extend your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt.”