He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
Parallel translations
- WEB He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
- BSB He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
- NKJV He also gave their crops to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust.
- NASB He also gave their crops to the grasshopper And the product of their labor to the locust.
- NLT He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts.
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Quick answer
Locusts and caterpillars consumed Egypt's crops and labor. God struck their food supply and economy.
Overview
The devouring insects destroyed 'their increase' and 'their labor,' wiping out the fruit of their work. The plague demonstrated that prosperity and security lie wholly in God's hands. Egypt's loss magnified the Lord's power to provide for His own people while judging their oppressors.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Exod 10:12–15And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
- Ps 105:34–35He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
- Amos 7:1–2Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
- Joel 1:4–7That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
- Joel 2:25And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
- Rev 9:2–11And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
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