I do not clearly remember whether it was the beating on tin cans and howling of the people or the prayed-for "strong wind" that drove the merry locusts away. What I do remember is that when they did go away they left the land almost stripped clean of every green thing.
It was no vain threatening when the writer of Deuteronomy warned Israel, saying, "If thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God,, to observe to do all his commandments.... All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume."[[9]]
[[1]] Mic. iv: 4.
[[2]] Is. lxiii: 2.
[[3]] Job xxiv: 11.
[[4]] See page 201.
[[5]] Judges viii: 7.
[[6]] 1 Kings viii: 37.
[[7]] A Far Journey, page 109, etc.
[[8]] Exod. x: 40.