Psalms 105:34
32 He gave them hail for rain, with lightning throughout their land.
33 He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.
He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
35 They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.
36 Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
- KJV
- He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
- WEB
- He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number.
- ASV
- He spake, and the locust came, And the grasshopper, and that without number,
- DARBY
- He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number;
- BLB
- He spoke, and the locust came, and the young locust without number,
- ÅB
- Han talte, og det kom gresshopper og gnagere[^4] uten tall,
- OTB
- Han talte, og gresshopper kom,
Og utallige gresshopper uten tall, - B1930
- Han talte, og det kom gresshopper og gnagere uten tall, / < d.e. gresshopper.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 10:12–15
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”
Read in contextPsalms 78:46
He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
Read in contextJoel 2:25
I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — My great army that I sent against you.
Read in contextJoel 1:4–7
What 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.
Read in contextRevelation 9:3–10
And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.
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