KJV King James Version
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
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Psalm 78:46
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
WEB World English Bible
He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
ASV American Standard Version
He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And giveth to the caterpillar their increase, And their labour to the locust.
Surrounding context — Psalm 78
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them].
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Exodus 10:12-15And 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.Psalm 105:34-35He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,Amos 7:1-2Thus 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.Joel 2:25And 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.Revelation 9:2-11And 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.Joel 1:4-7That 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.
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