Rather than ravage vegetation, the symbolic locusts swarm against “those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. ”
فَصَعِدَ دُخَانٌ كَثِيفٌ مِنَ ٱلْحُفْرَةِ وَخَرَجَتْ مِنَ ٱلدُّخَانِ أَسْرَابٌ غَازِيَةٌ مِنَ ٱلْجَرَادِ .‏