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Psalm 78:47

He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

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.
49He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
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Vines and fig trees make the judgment on Egypt concrete: God's anger reaches the plants that people tend and depend on for food.

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7 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Job 37:10By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen.Both passages attribute freezing cold to God, though Job describes frozen waters and the psalm describes destroyed crops.
Exodus 9:25The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every …Both recount hail destroying vegetation in Egypt, with the psalm naming vines and sycamore fig trees among the losses.
2 Chronicles 9:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as abundant as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.Sycamore trees are the shared detail: Chronicles uses their abundance as a comparison, while the psalm recounts their destruction.
Exodus 9:18–34Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.God announces destructive hail over Egypt in Exodus, and the psalm recounts hail destroying their vines.
Psalm 105:32–33He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.Both psalms recount God sending hail upon the land in their accounts of judgment on Egypt.
Psalm 105:33He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.Both passages name vines and fig trees as plants God destroyed.
Luke 19:4He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.The connection is limited to sycamore trees: one passage describes their destruction, while the other describes a man climbing one.
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Encouragement

This account names God's judgment on Egypt; it does not explain every loss you suffer. The ruined vines and fig trees show how far that judgment reached.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).