God’s Word Translation
Psalms 105:34
34He spoke, and countless locusts and grasshoppers came.
Psalms 105:34 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
- New International Version (NIV)He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number;
- English Standard Version (ESV)He spoke, and the locusts came, young locusts without number,
- New King James Version (NKJV)He spoke, and locusts came, Young locusts without number,
Context of Psalms 105:34
32He gave them hail and lightning instead of rain throughout their land. 33He struck their grapevines and fig trees and smashed the trees in their territory. He spoke, and countless locusts and grasshoppers came. 35They devoured all the plants in the land. They devoured the crops in the fields. 36He killed all the firstborn sons, the first ones born in the land when their fathers were young.
Read all of Psalms 105Psalms 105:34 word by word
אָ֭מַר וַיָּבֹ֣א אַרְבֶּ֑ה וְ֝יֶ֗לֶק וְאֵ֣ין מִסְפָּֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 105:34
- Psalms 78:46He gave their crops to grasshoppers and their produce to locusts.
- Exodus 10:12The Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt to bring locusts. They will invade Egypt and eat up every plant in the land—everything left by the hail.”
- Joel 1:4What young locusts leave, mature locusts will eat. What mature locusts leave, adult locusts will eat. What adult locusts leave, grasshoppers will eat.
- Joel 2:25“Then I will repay you for the years that the mature locusts, the adult locusts, the grasshoppers, and the young locusts ate your crops. (They are the large army that I sent against you.)
- Revelation 9:3Locusts came out of the smoke onto the earth, and they were given power like the power of earthly scorpions.
Commentaries on Psalms 105:34
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29-36Verses 29-36 See an account of these plagues in Psalm 78:43-51. This is mostly a mere enumeration of the plagues in the order in which they occurred, but without, of course, the details of the circumstances attending them. There are no circumstances mentioned here which require particular explanation.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 24-45Verses 24-45 As the believer commonly thrives best in his soul when under the cross; so the church also flourishes most in true holiness, and increases in number, while under persecution. Yet instruments shall be raised up for their deliverance, and plagues may be expected by persecutors. And see the special care God took of his people in the wilderness. All the benefits bestowed on Israel as a nation, were shadows of spiritual blessings with which we are…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26-36The psalmist tells the story of Moses and the plagues in Egypt (see Exodus 7:20–12:30).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 28-3628-36. The ninth plague is made prominent as peculiarly wonderful. they rebelled not--Moses and Aaron promptly obeyed God (He 11:27); (compare Ex 7:1-11:10 and Psa 78:44-51, with which this summary substantially agrees). Or, rather, the "darkness" here is figurative (Jr 13:16), the literal plague of darkness (Ex 10:22, 23) being only alluded to as the symbol of God's wrath which overhung Egypt as a dark cloud during all the plagues. Hence, it is placed…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 105
- 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
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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