Psalms 105:34

34 He spoke and there came locusts and young locusts without number.

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 hail for their rains [and the] fire of lightning in their land.
33 And he struck their vines and fig trees, and shattered the trees of their territory.
34 He spoke and there came locusts and young locusts without number.
35 And they ate up all [the] vegetation in their land, and they ate up the fruit of their ground.
36 And he struck down all [the] firstborn in their land, [the] first of all their virility.
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