15For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.
16Then Pharaoh quickly sent for Moses and Aaron, and said, I have done evil against the Lord your God and against you.
17Let me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only, and make prayer to the Lord your God that he will take away from me this death only.
18So he went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord.
19And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.
20But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go.
21And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark.
