5 For they and their livestock would come up with their tents. They would come as numerous as the locusts,+ and they and their camels were without number;+ and they would come into the land to ruin it.+

12 Now Midʹi·an and Amʹa·lek and all the Easterners+ were plumped in the low plain as numerous as locusts;+ and their camels+ were without number, as numerous as the grains of sand that are on the seashore.

17 Your guardsmen are like the locust,* and your recruiting officers like the locust swarm.* They are camping in the stone pens in a cold day. The sun itself has but to shine forth, and away they certainly flee; and their place is really unknown where they are.+