For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
The locusts covered the entire land so completely that it looked dark. They ate every plant in the country and all the fruit on the trees that had survived the hailstorm. Nothing green was left anywhere—not on the trees or in the fields throughout all of Egypt.
This verse describes how the plague of locusts completely devastated Egypt, eating every green plant that remained after the previous plague of hail.
📚 Historical Context
This verse describes the eighth plague that God sent upon Egypt when Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites leave slavery. The locusts came after seven previous plagues, including the devastating hailstorm mentioned here that had already damaged much of Egypt's crops. This agricultural destruction would have been economically catastrophic for Egypt, whose economy depended heavily on farming along the fertile Nile River.
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