Psalm 105:34
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New International Version (©2011)
He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number;

New Living Translation (©2007)
He spoke, and hordes of locusts came--young locusts beyond number.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He spoke, and the locusts came, young locusts without number,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He spoke, and locusts came, And young locusts, even without number,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He spoke, and locusts came-- young locusts without number.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then he commanded the locust to come— grasshoppers without number.

NET Bible (©2006)
He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
He spoke and the locusts came and the crawling locust without number in all their land.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He spoke, and countless locusts and grasshoppers came.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He spoke, and the locusts came, and young locusts, and that without number,

American King James Version
He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,

American Standard Version
He spake, and the locust came, And the grasshopper, and that without number,

Douay-Rheims Bible
He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number.

Darby Bible Translation
He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number;

English Revised Version
He spake, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, and that without number,

Webster's Bible Translation
He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,

World English Bible
He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,

Young's Literal Translation
He hath said, and the locust cometh, And the cankerworm -- innumerable,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

105:24-45 As the believer commonly thrives best in his soul when under the cross; so the church also flourishes most in true holiness, and increases in number, while under persecution. Yet instruments shall be raised up for their deliverance, and plagues may be expected by persecutors. And see the special care God took of his people in the wilderness. All the benefits bestowed on Israel as a nation, were shadows of spiritual blessings with which we are blessed in Christ Jesus. Having redeemed us with his blood, restored our souls to holiness, and set us at liberty from Satan's bondage, he guides and guards us all the way. He satisfies our souls with the bread of heaven, and the water of life from the Rock of salvation, and will bring us safely to heaven. He redeems his servants from all iniquity, and purifies them unto himself, to be a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 34. - He spake, and the locusts came (see Exodus 10:13, 14). And caterpillars. Either a kind of locust, or the locust at one period of its growth. Not mentioned in Exodus. And that without number (see Exodus 10:14, 15).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He spake, and the locusts came,.... A great army of them, and covered the land, that it was even darkened by them; and were such as had never been seen before, or ever were since; this is the eighth plague, Exodus 10:12, with these compare the locusts in Revelation 9:3.

And caterpillars, and that without number; of these no mention is made in Exodus; they seem to be one of the kinds of locusts, or a different word is here used for the same, and so Kimchi interprets it; some render it the white locust; it has its name from licking up the herbs and grass of the field; as the other name for the locust seems to be taken from its great abundance and increase.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

34. caterpillars—literally, "the lickers up," devouring insects; probably the hairy-winged locust.

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Tell of His Wonderful Works!
…33He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and broke the trees of their coasts. 34He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number, 35And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. …

Exodus 10:12 And the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail."
Exodus 10:13 So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the LORD made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts;
Exodus 10:14 they invaded all Egypt and settled down in every area of the country in great numbers. Never before had there been such a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again.
Exodus 10:15 They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured all that was left after the hail--everything growing in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
Psalm 78:46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
Psalm 105:35 they ate up every green thing in their land, ate up the produce of their soil.
Psalm 107:25 For he spoke and stirred up a tempest that lifted high the waves.
Joel 2:3 Before them fire devours, behind them a flame blazes. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, behind them, a desert waste-- nothing escapes them.