Your soldiers are helpless, and your country stands defenseless before your enemies. Fire will destroy the bars across your gates.

"I am your enemy!" says the LORD Almighty. "I will burn up your chariots. Your soldiers will be killed in war, and I will take away everything that you took from others. The demands of your envoys will no longer be heard."

The LORD will use his power to destroy Assyria. He will make the city of Nineveh a deserted ruin, a waterless desert.

Swarm after swarm of locusts settled on the crops; what one swarm left, the next swarm devoured.

I will give you back what you lost in the years when swarms of locusts ate your crops. It was I who sent this army against you.

So Moses raised his stick, and the LORD caused a wind from the east to blow on the land all that day and all that night. By morning it had brought the locusts.

They covered the ground until it was black with them; they ate everything that the hail had left, including all the fruit on the trees. Not a green thing was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.