And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
A swarm obedient to God's word, locusts at a call, an army more fearsome than horse and foot. Yet mark what follows: when God pleases, He can strip bare what He has given, force men from their possessions, and bid contemptible insects plunder the bread from their mouths. Labor not for what locusts devour, but for meat that endures to eternal life.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 10:12-20
And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt,.... His hand, with his rod in it: and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land, all that day and all that night; all that day after he had been driven from Pharaoh, and after he had stretched out his hand with his rod in it over Egypt, which was the seventh of...
the Lord brought an east wind--The rod of Moses was again raised, and the locusts came. They are natives of the desert and are only brought by an east wind into Egypt, where they sometimes come in sun-obscuring clouds, destroying in a few days every green blade in the track they traverse. Man, with all his contrivances, can do nothing to protect himself from the overwhelming invasion.