Exodus 10 · Verse 15

Exodus 10:15

For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Exodus 10:15, King James Version

Exodus 10:15 in other translations

BSBThey covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
WEBFor they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
ASVFor they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
YLTand it covereth the eye of all the land, and the land is darkened; and it eateth every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail hath left, and there hath not been left any green thing in the trees, or in the herb of the field, in all the land of Egypt.'
DARBYAnd they covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing on the trees, and in the herbs of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.
BBEFor all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.
WebsterFor they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing on the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

What does Exodus 10:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 10:13-19

13-19. the Lord brought an east wind--The rod of Moses was again raised, and the locusts came. They are natives of the desert and are only brought by an east wind into Egypt, where they sometimes come in sun-obscuring clouds, destroying in a few days every green blade in the track they traverse. Man, with all his contrivances, can do nothing to protect himself from the overwhelming invasion. Egypt has often suffered…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 There remained not any green thing - See Clarke's note on Exo 10:4.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 10:12-20

God bids Moses stretch out his hand; locusts came at the call. An army might more easily have been resisted than this host of insects. Who then is able to stand before the great God? They covered the face of the earth, and ate up the fruit of it. Herbs grow for the service of man; yet when God pleases, insects shall plunder him, and eat the bread out of his mouth. Let our labour be, not for the habitation and meat…

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Exodus 10:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיְכַ֞סvay.Khasand it coveredH3680
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
עֵ֣ין'ein[the] eye ofH5869
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
הָאָרֶץ֮ha.'a.Retzthe landH776
וַתֶּחְשַׁ֣ךְva.tech.Shakhand it grew darkH2821
הָאָרֶץ֒ha.'a.Retzthe landH776
וַיֹּ֜אכַלvai.Yo.khaland it ateH398
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
עֵ֣שֶׂב'E.sev[the] vegetation ofH6212
הָאָ֗רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776
וְאֵת֙ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
פְּרִ֣יpe.Ri[the] fruit ofH6529
הָעֵ֔ץha.'Etzthe tree[s]H6086
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhichH834
הוֹתִ֖ירho.Tirit had left overH3498
הַבָּרָ֑דha.ba.Radthe hailH1259
וְלֹא\־ve.lo'-and notH3808
נוֹתַ֨רno.Tarit was left behindH3498
כָּל\־kol-anyH3605
יֶ֧רֶקYe.rekgreeneryH3418
בָּעֵ֛ץba.'Etzon the tree[s]H6086
וּבְעֵ֥שֶׂבu.ve.'E.sevand on [the] vegetation ofH6212
הַשָּׂדֶ֖הha.sa.Dehthe fieldH7704
בְּכָל\־be.kholin allH3605
אֶ֥רֶץ'E.retz[the] land ofH776
מִצְרָֽיִם\׃mitz.Ra.yimEgyptH4714

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Exodus 10:15

  • Exodus 10:5

    And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:

  • Psalms 105:34-35

    He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number, And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

  • Joel 1:6-7

    For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

  • Joel 2:1-11

    Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. …

  • Joel 2:25

    And 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.

  • Psalms 78:46

    He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For they.
5; Joe 1:6,7; 2:1-11,25
did eat.
Ps 78:46; 105:35

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Exodus 10:14

    And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

  • Exodus 10:15

    For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

  • Exodus 10:16

    Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.

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Exodus 10:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y cubrió la faz de todo el país, y oscurecióse la tierra; y consumió toda la hierba de la tierra, y todo el fruto de los árboles que había dejado el granizo; que no quedó cosa verde en árboles ni en hierba del campo, por toda la tierra de Egipto.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et elles couvrirent la face de tout le pays, et le pays fut obscurci; et elles mangèrent toute l’herbe de la terre, et tout le fruit des arbres que la grêle avait laissé; et il ne demeura de reste aucune verdure aux arbres, ni à l’herbe des champs, dans tout le pays d’Égypte.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und sie bedeckten das Angesicht des ganzen Landes, so daß das Land verfinstert wurde; und sie fraßen alles Kraut des Landes und alle Früchte der Bäume, die der Hagel übriggelassen hatte; und es blieb nichts Grünes übrig an den Bäumen und am Kraut des Feldes im ganzen Lande Ägypten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Operueruntque universam superficiem terræ, vastantes omnia. Devorata est igitur herba terræ, et quidquid pomorum in arboribus fuit, quæ grando dimiserat: nihilque omnino virens relictum est in lignis et in herbis terræ, in cuncta Ægypto.