Exodus 10:12-17

The Eighth Plague: Locusts

¹² Then the Lord said to Moses, _b "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and _c eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left." ¹³ So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts. ¹⁴ _d The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, _e such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever will be again. ¹⁵ They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and _f they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt. ¹⁶ Then Pharaoh hastily called Moses and Aaron and said, _g "I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. ¹⁷ Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, only this once, and _h plead with the Lord your God only to remove this death from me."

1. Cross References
   Exodus 7:19
   And the Lord said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'
   
2. Cross References
   Exodus 10:4 - 5
   For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.
   
3. Cross References
   Psalms 78:46
   He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
   Psalms 105:34
   He spoke, and the locusts came, young locusts without number.
   
4. Cross References
   Joel 2:2
   A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
   
5. Cross References
   Psalms 105:35
   Which devoured all the vegetation in their land and ate up the fruit of their ground.
   
6. Cross References
   Exodus 9:27
   Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, "This time I have sinned; the Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.
   
7. Cross References
   Exodus 8:8
   Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, "Plead with the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.