And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.

And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.

gave also

Psalm 105:34,35 He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number. . . .

Exodus 10:12-15 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand upon the land of Egypt unto the locust, that it come upon it, and devour every herb that is left after the hail. . . .

Joel 1:4-7 That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath eaten: and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed. . . .

Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years which the locust, and the bruchus, and the mildew, and the palmerworm hath eaten; my great host which I sent upon you.

Amos 7:1,2 But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert. . . .

Revelation 9:2-11 And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit. . . .

2 Chronicles 6:28 If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence or blasting, or mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars: or if their enemies waste the country, and besiege the cities, whatsoever scourge or infirmity shall be upon them:

and Aquila here, and also the Vulgate in Chron, and is

2 Chronicles 33:4 He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

and Jerome here, bruchus, the chaffer, which every one knows to be a great devourer of the leaves of trees. The syriac in Joel

2 Chronicles 1:4 For David had brought the ark of God from Cariathiarim to the place, which he had prepared for it, and where he had pitched a tabernacle for it, that is, in Jerusalem.

2:25 renders it tzartzooro, which Michaelis, from the Arabic Tzartzar, a cricket, interprets the mole-cricket, which in its grub state is also very destructive to corn, grass, and other vegetables, by cankering the roots on which it feeds.