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    "reader_category": "Plague, smallness, overwhelming numbers, and restoration / Locust imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Locust, grasshopper, and swarming-insect imagery uses locusts, grasshoppers, caterpillars, and devouring swarms to describe plague, frailty, overwhelming numbers, disciplined judgment, ordered action, and restoration after loss.",
    "technical_definition": "A swarm-and-devouring motif in which insects signify covenant plague, destructive abundance, human smallness, disciplined order without visible king, invading multitude, or the LORD’s ability to restore what devouring years consumed.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 31 draft-normalized creature imagery review; distinguish this from harvest imagery by focusing on devouring insects, plague-swarms, grasshopper-smallness, and restoration after locust loss.",
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      "reference": "Exod. 10:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I will bring the locusts into thy coast",
      "explanation": "Locusts become covenant-plague imagery against Pharaoh’s resistance.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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      "reference": "Exod. 10:15",
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      "reference": "Num. 13:33",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Judg. 6:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they came as grasshoppers for multitude",
      "explanation": "Swarming insects image the overwhelming numbers of oppressors.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "1 Kings 8:37",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "if there be locust, or if there be caterpiller",
      "explanation": "Locust plague belongs to covenant crisis calling for prayer.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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      "reference": "Ps. 105:34",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the locusts came, and caterpillers",
      "explanation": "Locusts rehearse the LORD’s plague-judgments in Egypt.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Prov. 30:27",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "The locusts have no king, yet go they forth",
      "explanation": "Locust order becomes wisdom from a small creature.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Isa. 40:22",
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      "reference": "Joel 2:25",
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      "reference": "Rev. 9:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "there came out of the smoke locusts",
      "explanation": "Apocalyptic locusts image terrifying judgment released from the abyss.",
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