“And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:”
They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields. The locusts will finish the agricultural destruction the hail began. The hail destroyed the early crops and stripped the trees; the locusts will consume whatever survived. The phrase devour every tree echoes the systematic dismantling of Egypt's productive capacity that has been underway since the fifth plague. By the time the locusts are finished, there will be nothing left in Egypt's fields. The economic foundation of the most powerful civilization on earth will be in ruins. Joel 2:25 records God promising to restore the years the locust has eaten — the damage of locusts is comprehensive enough to be measured in years, not seasons. Egypt's years of agricultural abundance are being consumed.
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