Psalms 105:35

And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
up	וַיֹּ֣אכַל vai.Yo.khal	H398	to eat (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
herbs	עֵ֣שֶׂב 'E.sev	H6212	grass (or any tender shoot) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
land	בְּאַרְצָ֑ם be.'ar.Tzam	H776	the earth (at large · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
devoured	וַ֝יֹּ֗אכַל vai.Yo.khal	H398	to eat (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
fruit	פְּרִ֣י pe.Ri	H6529	fruit (literally or figuratively) · noun, common masculine singular construct
ground	אַדְמָתָֽם 'ad.ma.Tam	H127	soil (from its general redness) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 105:25–end

After the history of the patriarchs follows here the history of the people of Israel, when they grew into a nation. I. Their affliction in Egypt (Psa 105:25): He turned the heart of the Egyptians, who had protected them, to hate them and deal subtilely with them. God's goodness to his people exasperated the Egyptians against them; and, though their old antipathy to the Hebrews (which we read of Gen 43:32; Gen 46:34) was laid asleep for a while, yet now it revived with more violence than ever: formerly they hated them because they despised them, now because they feared them. They dealt subtilely with them, set all their politics on work to find out ways and means to weaken them, and waste the…

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John Gill on Psalms 105:35

And did eat up all the herbs in their land,.... As these creatures usually do, unless restrained, Exodus 10:5. And devoured the fruit of their ground; which the hail left, Exodus 10:15.

John Calvin on Psalms 105:31-38

Psalm 105:31-38 31. He spake, and there came a swarm of flies, [226] and lice [227] in all their borders. 32. He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire upon their land. 33. And he smote their vines and their fig trees; and destroyed the trees throughout their borders. 34. He spake, and the grasshopper came, and the caterpillar [228] without number, 35. And they devoured all the herbage in their land, and consumed the fruit of their ground. 36. And he smote all the first-born in their country, even the beginning of all their strength. [229] 37. And he brought them forth with silver and gold: nor was there a feeble person among his tribes. 38. Egypt rejoiced at their departure: for their t…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 105:25-38

Narration of the exodus out of Egypt after the plagues that went forth over that land. Psa 105:25 tells how the Egyptians became their "oppressors." It was indirectly God's work, inasmuch as He gave increasing might to His people, which excited their jealousy. The craft reached its highest pitch in the weakening of the Israelites that was aimed at by killing all the male children that were born. דּברי signifies facts, instances, as in Psa 65:4; Psa 145:5. Here, too, as in Ps 78, the miraculous judgments of the ten plagues to not stand in exactly historical order. The poet begins with the ninth, which was the most distinct self-representation of divine wrath, viz., the darkness (Exo 10:21-29)…

The Church Fathers

"And did eat up all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of the ground" [Psalm 105:35]. Even grass is fruit, as Scripture is wont to speak, which calls even the ripe grain grass; but it wished these two things to harmonize in number with the two which it had spoken of before, that is, the locust and the caterpillar. But the whole of this does belong to the variety of speech, which is a remedy for weariness, not to any difference of senses.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 105

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Dictionary and topics

Herbs, & C · Destroyed by: Locusts, & c — Destroyed by: Locusts, & c
Locust · Plague of — Plague of

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Psalms 105:35

Word by word — the Hebrew

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 105:25–end

John Gill on Psalms 105:35

John Calvin on Psalms 105:31-38

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 105:25-38

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 105:35

Word by word — the Hebrew

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 105:25–end

John Gill on Psalms 105:35

John Calvin on Psalms 105:31-38

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 105:25-38

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 105:26-36

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 105:35