The LORD sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 19. West. Hebrew sea, (Mediterranean) to the north and west of Egypt.—Red sea. Hebrew “of suph,” or green herbs, which abound there. It has also a reddish appearance in some places, from the coral branches of a saffron colour. It probably was called red from Edom, or Erythros, the son of Isaac. Calmet.—God drowned the locusts in this sea, by means of the wind, which often proves the destruction of those animals. Plin. xi. 29.
“Red Sea” is the translation for the Hebrew “Yam Suf”, which could be more literally translated “Sea of Reeds” or “Sea of Cattails”. It refers to the body of water currently known as the Red Sea, or possibly to one of the bodies of water connected to it or near it.