Psalms 105:33

33 quia exacerbaverunt spiritum eius et distinxit in labiis suis

Psalms 105:33 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 105:33

He smote their vines also, and their fig trees
So that they died; for in ( Psalms 78:47 ) , it is said, he "killed" them; and it is not only used in common speech with us, but with classical writers F2 to speak of killing inanimate things, as trees, herbs That is, the hail smote them, or God by the hail; these are particularly mentioned because most useful, producing grapes and figs.

And brake the trees of their coasts:
all the trees within the borders of their land, ( Exodus 9:25 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F2 "----interice messes", Virgil. Georgic. l. 4. "Neque herbas crescere et interfici", Ciceron. Oeconom: ex Xenophon, l. 3.

Psalms 105:33 In-Context

31 et reputatum est ei in iustitiam in generatione et generationem usque in sempiternum
32 et inritaverunt ad aquam Contradictionis et vexatus est Moses propter eos
33 quia exacerbaverunt spiritum eius et distinxit in labiis suis
34 non disperdiderunt gentes quas dixit Dominus illis
35 et commixti sunt inter gentes et didicerunt opera eorum
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