Salmi 105:33

33 E percosse le lor vigne, e i lor fichi; E fracassò gli alberi della lor contrada.

Salmi 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.

Salmi 105:33 In-Context

31 Alla sua parola venne una mischia d’insetti, E pidocchi in tutte le lor contrade.
32 Egli mutò le lor pioggie in gragnuola, E in fuoco divampante nel lor paese;
33 E percosse le lor vigne, e i lor fichi; E fracassò gli alberi della lor contrada.
34 Alla sua parola vennero locuste, E bruchi senza numero;
35 Che rosero tutta l’erba nel lor paese, E mangiarono il frutto della lor terra.
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