Psalm 105:33

33 He struck down their grapevines and fig trees, and he destroyed every tree in the country.

Psalm 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 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Psalm 105:33 In-Context

31 The Lord spoke and flies came, and gnats were everywhere in the country.

32 He made hail fall like rain and sent lightning through their land.

33 He struck down their grapevines and fig trees, and he destroyed every tree in the country.

34 He spoke and grasshoppers came; the locusts were too many to count.

35 They ate all the plants in the land and everything the earth produced.