Psalms 78 · Verse 46

Psalms 78:46

He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
Psalms 78:46, King James Version

Psalms 78:46 in other translations

BSBHe gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
WEBHe also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
ASVHe gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust.
YLTAnd giveth to the caterpillar their increase, And their labour to the locust.
DARBYAnd he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;
BBEHe gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.
WebsterHe gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

What does Psalms 78:46 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
46. caterpillar--the Hebrew name, from its voracity, and that of-- locust--from its multitude.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 46 The caterpillar and - the locust - See on Exo 10:13 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 78:40-55

Let not those that receive mercy from God, be thereby made bold to sin, for the mercies they receive will hasten its punishment; yet let not those who are under Divine rebukes for sin, be discouraged from repentance. The Holy One of Israel will do what is most for his own glory, and what is most for their good. Their forgetting former favours, led them to limit God for the future. God made his own people to go forth…

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Psalms 78:46 in the original Hebrew

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וַיִּתֵּ֣ןvai.yi.Tenand he gaveH5414
לֶחָסִ֣ילle.cha.Silto the locustH2625
יְבוּלָ֑םye.vu.Lamproduce theirH2981
וִֽ֝יגִיעָ֗םvi.gi.'Amand [the] result of toil theirH3018
לָאַרְבֶּֽה\׃la.'ar.Behto the locustH697

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Cross references for Psalms 78:46

  • Exodus 10:12-15

    And 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. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 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. 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.

  • 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.

  • Revelation 9:2-11

    And 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. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. …

  • Joel 1:4-7

    That 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. Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. 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 2:25

    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.

  • Amos 7:1-2

    Thus 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. And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
gave also.
105:34,35; Ex 10:12-15; Joe 1:4-7; 2:25; Am 7:1,2; Re 9:2-11
the caterpillar.{Chosal,} from {chasal,} to consume, eat up, is rendered [\~broucov\~, brouchos] by the LXX., in 2 Ch 6:28, and Aquila here, and also the Vulgate in Chron. and Isa 33:4 and Jerome here, {bruchus,} the chaffer, which every one knows to be a great devourer of the leaves of trees. The Syriac in Joel 1:4; 2:25, renders it {tzartzooro,} which Michaelis, from the Arabic {tzartzar,} a cricket, interprets the mole-cricket, which in its grub state is also very destructive to corn, grass, and other vegetables, by cankering the roots on which it feeds.

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Context

  • Psalms 78:45

    He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

  • Psalms 78:46

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

  • Psalms 78:47

    He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

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Psalms 78:46 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Dió también al pulgón sus frutos, y sus trabajos á la langosta.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et il livra leurs fruits à la locuste, et leur travail à la sauterelle.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und er gab der Grille ihren Ertrag, und ihre Arbeit der Heuschrecke.