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Psalm 78:46

He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

44he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
45He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
47He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
48He also gave over their livestock to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
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Caterpillars and locusts consume the fruit of human work here, making Egypt’s judgment concrete in the loss of what its people had labored to grow.

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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 caterpillars as consumers of crops, describing the destruction of what had grown.
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 describe God sending locusts against Egypt’s crops, with Exodus recording his command to Moses before the insects came.
Exodus 10:14The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as …Both recall the locust plague in Egypt, with the psalm naming the loss of crops and Exodus describing its scale.
Psalm 105:34He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number.Both psalms attribute the coming of crop-devouring insects to God’s action in their accounts of Egypt’s plagues.
Exodus 10:15For 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 …Both describe Egypt’s harvest consumed by locusts; Exodus details the loss of every green thing left after the hail.
Revelation 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 …The link is limited: Psalm 78 describes insects consuming crops, while the supplied Revelation verse describes smoke darkening the air.
Amos 7:1–2Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the …Both connect locusts with God’s action and growing crops, though Amos describes a vision concerning the latter growth.
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 attribute crop-consuming insects to God; Joel adds a promise to restore the years those insects had eaten.
Haggai 2:17I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says the LORD.Both describe God striking the results of human labor, through insects in the psalm and crop damage in Haggai.
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This account names God’s judgment on Egypt; it gives no warrant to label every failed harvest or lost wage a punishment. Human labor remains under God’s rule.

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