1The LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, so that I may set these signs of mine in his midst.2And so that you may recount in the hearing of your son and of your son's son what I did to Egypt, together with my signs that I set among them, so that you may know that I am the LORD."3Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.'4For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.5And they will cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land; and they will eat the remainder of what survives for you from the hail, and they will eat every tree that springs up for you from the field.6Your houses will be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians—something your fathers and your fathers' fathers have never seen from the day they came to be upon the land until this day." Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.7Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this be a snare to us? Let the men go and serve the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?"8Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve the LORD your God. But who exactly will be going?"9Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds, because we must hold a feast to the LORD."10He said to them, "May the LORD be with you, just as I will send you and your little ones; but see that trouble is before your face.11It is not so; go now, the men, and serve the LORD, for that is what you are seeking." And he drove them out from Pharaoh's presence.12The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locust, so that it may come up over the land of Egypt and eat all the vegetation of the land—everything the hail left."13Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD led an east wind in the land all that day and all night; when morning came, the east wind lifted the locusts.14The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled in every territory of Egypt in such dense swarms that the like had never been seen before and would never be seen again.15They covered the surface of the entire land, and the land grew dark; they ate all the vegetation of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on any tree or in any vegetation of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.16Pharaoh hurriedly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.17And now forgive my sin just this once, and pray to the LORD your God that he may remove from me only this death."18He went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD.19The LORD turned a very strong sea wind, and it lifted the locusts and drove them toward the sea of reeds; not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.20The LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go.