“Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. grasshoppers: or, green worms”
After the public commandment for mowing was given: or as some read, when the king’s sheep were shorn. To devour the land: and he alludeth to the invading of the enemies.