He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.
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He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.
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He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
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He smote their vines also and their fig-trees; and broke the trees of their borders.
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Passages linked to Psalms 105:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
- Revelation 9:4 They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 105:33 He smote their vines also and their…
Psa 105:33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
Ver. 33. He smote their vines also, and their fig trees] Of the fruitfulness of these trees in Egypt, strange things are reported by Solinus and others; but this extraordinary hail mingled with fire, marred them in the spring, when they promised great store of fruit, trusis botris et baccis.
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And brake the trees] Yea, dashed out the brains of men and beasts that were abroad, as Moses addeth.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He smote their vines also, and their fig trees,....…
He smote their vines also, and their fig trees,.... So that they died; for in Psa 78:47, it is said, he "killed" them; and it is not only used in common speech with us, but with classical writers (b) to speak of killing inanimate things, as trees, herbs, &c. 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, Exo 9:25.
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(b) "----interice messes", Virgil. Georgic. l. 4. "Neque herbas crescere et interfici", Ciceron. Oeconom: ex Xenophon, l. 3.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 33. He smote their vines also, and their…
Verse 33. He smote their vines also, and their fig trees] This is not mentioned in Exodus; but we have had it before, Ps 78:47.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain He smote their vines also and their fig trees.…
He smote their vines also and their fig trees. The hail "smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field". (Exo_9:25; comb. Psa_78:47) The sceptical objection that Egypt had no vines has long been given up. And brake the trees of their coasts. Hail, though it cannot "break" trees of any size, may do great damage to the leaves and the smaller branches.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 33. He smote their vines also and their…
Ver. 33. He smote their vines also and their fig trees. So that all hope of gathering their best fruits was gone, and the trees were injured for future bearing. All the crops were destroyed, and these are mentioned as being the more prominent forms of their produce, used by them both at festivals and in common meals.
And brake the trees of their coasts. From end to end of Egypt the trees were battered and broken by the terrible hailstorm. God is in earnest when he deals with proud spirits, he will either end them or mend them.
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Psalms 105:34*
Ver. 34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number. One word from the Captain and the armies leap forward. The expression is very striking, and sets forth the immediate result of the divine word. The caterpillar is called the licker, because it seems to lick up every green thing as in a moment. Perhaps the caterpillar here meant is still the locust in another form. That locusts swarm in countless armies is a fact of ordinary observation, and the case would be worse on this occasion. We have ourselves ridden for miles through armies of locusts, and we have seen with our own eyes how completely they devour every green thing. The description is not strained when we read, "And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground." Nothing escapes these ravenous creatures, they even climb the trees to reach any remnant of foliage which may survive. Commissioned as these were by God, we may be sure they would do their work thoroughly, and leave behind them nothing but a desolate wilderness.
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