The locust plague described here is detailed enough, four different named stages of locust, that some readers take it as a literal agricultural disaster rather than purely symbolic language.
Historical & Cultural<b>What the shearing locust left over</b>—Gazam, arbeh, yelek, hasil are species of locusts and he prophesied concerning them that they would come in those days and destroy all the fruit of the trees and the herbs of the field.
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