Psalms 105:34

34 He spoke, and countless locusts and grasshoppers came.

Psalms 105:34 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 105:34

He spake, and the locusts came
A great army of them, and covered the land, that it was even darkened by them; and were such as had never been seen before, or ever were since; this is the eighth plague, ( Exodus 10:12-14 ) , with these compare the locusts in ( Revelation 9:3 Revelation 9:4 ) .

And caterpillars, and that without number;
of these no mention is made in Exodus; they seem to be one of the kinds of locusts, or a different word is here used for the same, and so Kimchi interprets it; some render it the white locust; it has its name from licking up the herbs and grass of the field; as the other name for the locust seems to be taken from its great abundance and increase.

Psalms 105:34 In-Context

32 He gave them hail and lightning instead of rain throughout their land.

33 He struck their grapevines and fig trees and smashed the trees in their territory.

34 He spoke, and countless locusts and grasshoppers came.

35 They devoured all the plants in the land. They devoured the crops in the fields.

36 He killed all the firstborn sons, the first ones born in the land when their fathers were young.