The rich forests and farmlands will be totally destroyed, in the same way that a fatal sickness destroys someone.

"Mortal man," he said, "look toward the south. Speak against the south and prophesy against the forest of the south.

They would come with their livestock and tents, as thick as locusts. They and their camels were too many to count. They came and devastated the land,

The Midianites, the Amalekites, and the desert tribesmen were spread out in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and they had as many camels as there are grains of sand on the seashore.

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.

The star opened the abyss, and smoke poured out of it, like the smoke from a large furnace; the sunlight and the air were darkened by the smoke from the abyss.

They were told not to harm the grass or the trees or any other plant; they could harm only the people who did not have the mark of God's seal on their foreheads.

During those five months they will seek death, but will not find it; they will want to die, but death will flee from them.

Their hair was like women's hair, their teeth were like lions' teeth.

They have tails and stings like those of a scorpion, and it is with their tails that they have the power to hurt people for five months.