¹⁵ For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.

⁸ All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.