He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts.
Parallel translations
- WEB He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
- KJV He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto 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.
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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 10:12–15Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.”
- Ps 105:34–35He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,
- Amos 7:1–2Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest.
- Joel 1:4–7What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
- Joel 2:25I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.
- Rev 9:2–11He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.
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