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Psalms 78:46
46He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
Psalms 78:46 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
- New International Version (NIV)He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He also gave their crops to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust.
Context of Psalms 78:46
44He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams. 45He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them. He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust. 47He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore fig trees with a flood. 48He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts.
Read all of Psalms 78Psalms 78:46 word by word
וַיִּתֵּ֣ן לֶחָסִ֣יל יְבוּלָ֑ם וִֽ֝יגִיעָ֗ם לָאַרְבֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 78:46
- Psalms 105:34He spoke, and locusts came — young locusts without number.
- Exodus 10:12The Lord then said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, and the locusts will come up over it and eat every plant in the land, everything that the hail left.”
- Joel 1:4What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
- Joel 2:25I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust ate, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — my great army that I sent against you.
- Amos 7:1The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout — after the cutting of the king’s hay.
- Revelation 9:2He opened the shaft to the abyss, and smoke came up out of the shaft like smoke from a great furnace so that the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft.
- 2 Chronicles 6:28When there is famine in the land, when there is pestilence, when there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, when their enemies besiege them in the land and its cities, when there is any plague or illness,
- 2 Chronicles 33:4He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “Jerusalem is where my name will remain forever.”
- 2 Chronicles 1:4Now David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had set up for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem,
Commentaries on Psalms 78:46
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 46The caterpillar and - the locust - See on Exodus 10:13; (note).Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 46He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar - The increase or the produce of their fields. Exodus 10:12-14. The word חסיל châsı̂yl - is supposed to denote a species of locust rather than the caterpillar. It literally means the devourer. In our version, however, it is uniformly rendered caterpillar as here; 1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chronicles 6:28; Isaiah 33:4; Joel 1:4; Joel 2:25. It occurs nowhere else. And their labor unto the locust - The fruit of their…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 40-55Verses 40-55 Let not those that receive mercy from God, be thereby made bold to sin, for the mercies they receive will hasten its punishment; yet let not those who are under Divine rebukes for sin, be discouraged from repentance. The Holy One of Israel will do what is most for his own glory, and what is most for their good. Their forgetting former favours, led them to limit God for the future. God made his own people to go forth like sheep; and guided…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 40-55The Israelites rebelled even though the Lord had rescued them from powerful plagues.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4646. caterpillar--the Hebrew name, from its voracity, and that of-- locust--from its multitude.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 78
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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