Jeremiah 46:23
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They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.
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Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust— My great army that I sent against you.
The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
“Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.