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Psalm 105:34
He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number.
32He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.
33He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.
34He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number.
36He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.
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The countless locusts make God’s spoken command a sobering sight: his rule over creatures reaches into Egypt’s fields with devastating force.
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Exodus 10:12–15The LORD 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 …Both recount the locust plague in Egypt, with Exodus recording God’s command to Moses and the psalm condensing the event.
Joel 1:4What 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 …Both passages name locusts and grasshoppers in scenes of crop destruction, with Joel tracing what each kind leaves for another to eat.
Psalm 107:25For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.God’s command brings a swarm in Psalm 105 and raises a stormy wind in Psalm 107.
Psalm 78:46He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.Both psalms recount God sending insects against crops, with Psalm 78 naming the lost produce as the fruit of human labor.
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 …Both texts attribute the coming of destructive insects to God; Joel also promises restoration for the years they consumed.
Proverbs 30:27The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.Locusts appear in both texts: countless at God’s word in the psalm, advancing in ranks without a king in Proverbs.
Jonah 2:10Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.In both accounts, God speaks and creatures respond: locusts come to Egypt, and the fish releases Jonah onto dry land.
Exodus 10:13Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the …Both recount the arrival of Egypt’s locusts, while Exodus describes Moses’ raised rod and the east wind God brought.
2 Chronicles 7:13“If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people,Both passages describe locusts coming under God’s command, with crop destruction in view.
Revelation 9:3–10Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.Both passages describe the arrival of locusts; the psalm names God’s command, while Revelation describes power given to them.
Amos 6:11“For, behold, the LORD commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.Both connect God’s command with destruction: a consuming swarm in the psalm’s account and shattered houses in Amos.
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God’s rule extends even to creatures too numerous to count. Here that rule takes the form of judgment, with real loss in Egypt’s fields.
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