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Psalms 78:46
46He caused locusts to eat their crops, and everything that grew in their fields.
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 caused the Egyptians' rivers to become blood, so that they could not drink water from them. 45He sent large numbers of flies to bite them. He sent frogs that destroyed their land. He caused locusts to eat their crops, and everything that grew in their fields. 47He destroyed their vines with hail. He destroyed their fig trees with frost. 48He sent hail to kill their cows. He sent lightning to kill their other animals.
Read all of Psalms 78Psalms 78:46 word by word
וַיִּתֵּ֣ן לֶחָסִ֣יל יְבוּלָ֑ם וִֽ֝יגִיעָ֗ם לָאַרְבֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 78:46
- Psalms 105:34He commanded many locusts to come. There were too many locusts to count!
- Exodus 10:12Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Lift up your hand over the country of Egypt. Then locusts will fly all over the land. They will eat every plant that grows in the ground. They will eat everything that the hail has not destroyed.’
- Joel 1:4The great locusts have eaten what the big group of locusts left. The young locusts have eaten what the great locusts left. Other locusts have eaten what the young locusts left.
- Joel 2:25‘I will give you back the years that the locusts have eaten. I will give you all that the great locust and the young locust, and other locusts and their groups have eaten. All that my great army has eaten I will give you.
- Amos 7:1The Lord God showed a vision to me. I saw a crowd of locusts. The Lord was ready to send them to destroy the crops in the fields. They would come after we had taken the early crops to give to the king. Then the later crops were beginning to make grain.
- Revelation 9:2When the star opened the entrance, smoke came up out of the hole. It was like the smoke from a very big hot fire. The smoke caused the sun and the sky to become dark.
- 2 Chronicles 6:28Sometimes, there may be other troubles in our land. There may be a famine or a bad disease. Our crops may not grow and our animals may be ill. Locusts may destroy our crops. An enemy may attack some cities in our land. Or there may be other kinds of illness or trouble.
- 2 Chronicles 33:4He built altars in the Lord's temple. The Lord had said about his temple, ‘That is my home in Jerusalem where people will worship me for ever.’
- 2 Chronicles 1:4Before that, King David had brought God's Covenant Box from Kiriath-Jearim to Jerusalem. He had prepared a place for it in a tent there.
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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