Psalms 78:46

46 And he gave their crop to the locusts and their labor to the locust.

Psalms 78:46 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 78:46

He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar
A kind of locust, and the same with the locust in the next clause; for we read but of the locust only in ( Exodus 10:13 )

and their labour unto the locust;
which devoured the increase of the field, all green grass and trees, all sorts of corn, wheat, barley and rye, and the increase of vineyards, and all fruit trees, on which much labour had been used to manure and cultivate; see ( Revelation 9:3 Revelation 9:4 ) this was the eighth plague.

Psalms 78:46 In-Context

44 when he turned their rivers to blood so they could not drink [from] their streams.

45 He sent among them flies that devoured them and frogs that destroyed them.

46 And he gave their crop to the locusts and their labor to the locust.

47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with sleet.

48 He also handed their cattle over to the hail and their livestock to the lightning bolts.

Footnotes

• [a]. Two different words translated "locusts"