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Psalms 78:46
46He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts.
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
44For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams. 45He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them and hordes of frogs to ruin them. He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts. 47He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet. 48He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
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 hordes of locusts came— young locusts beyond number.
- Exodus 10:12Then the Lord said to Moses, “Raise your hand over the land of Egypt to bring on the locusts. Let them cover the land and devour every plant that survived the hailstorm.”
- Joel 1:4After the cutting locusts finished eating the crops, the swarming locusts took what was left! After them came the hopping locusts, and then the stripping locusts, too!
- Joel 2:25The Lord says, “I will give you back what you lost to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts, the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts. It was I who sent this great destroying army against you.
- Amos 7:1The Sovereign Lord showed me a vision. I saw him preparing to send a vast swarm of locusts over the land. This was after the king’s share had been harvested from the fields and as the main crop was coming up.
- Revelation 9:2When he opened it, smoke poured out as though from a huge furnace, and the sunlight and air turned dark from the smoke.
- 2 Chronicles 6:28“If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people’s enemies are in the land besieging their towns—whatever disaster or disease there is—
- 2 Chronicles 33:4He built pagan altars in the Temple of the Lord, the place where the Lord had said, “My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
- 2 Chronicles 1:4David had already moved the Ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the tent he had prepared 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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