⁶ For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

²⁵ And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.

³⁴ A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

¹⁴ There is a generation whose teeth are `as' swords, and their jaw teeth `as' knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

²⁵ The ants are a people not strong, Yet they provide their food in the summer;

²⁶ The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;

²⁷ The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of them by bands;

⁸ and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

¹³ Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

³ They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

² a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

³ A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and none hath escaped them.

⁴ The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so do they run.

⁵ Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

⁶ At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.

⁷ They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and they break not their ranks.

⁸ Neither doth one thrust another; they march every one in his path; and they burst through the weapons, and break not off `their course'.

⁹ They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.

¹⁰ The earth quaketh before them; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

¹¹ And Jehovah uttereth his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for he is strong that executeth his word; for the day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

⁷ And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men's faces.

⁸ And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as `teeth' of lions.

⁹ And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to war.

¹⁰ And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.