Not until their judgment went out against him would God's anger be appeased.

Let them cut him off from the children of his race, and the blessed rain would fall from heaven, and the thirsty earth would drink it, and the eggs of the locust would be destroyed.

But let them put off any longer their rightful task and duty before God and before the people, and their evil time would soon come.

Within eight-and-twenty days the eggs would be hatched, and within eight-and-forty other days the young locust would have wings.

Before the end of those seventy-and-six days the harvest of wheat and barley would be yellow to the scythe and ripe for the granary, but the locust would cover the face of the earth, and there would be no grain to gather.