Psa 78:43-58 | TSK | e4.org | How , ; ; , ; wrought Heb. set wonders

‏ Psalms 78:43-58

How Ps 105:27-38, Ps 135:9; Exod 3:19-20; Deut 4:34, Deut 6:22; Neh 9:10

wrought Heb. set

Ps 105:29; Exod 7:17-21; Rev 16:3-6; The miracles mentioned in this and the four subsequent verses, evidently shew the power of God over the elements of nature, which at that time were the objects of Egyptian worship.

sent Ps 105:31; Exod 8:21-24

frogs Ps 105:30; Exod 8:2-15; Rev 16:3

gave also Ps 105:34-35; Exod 10:12-15; Joel 1:4-7, Joel 2:25; Amos 7:1-2; Rev 9:2-11

the caterpillar Chosal, from chasal, to consume, eat up, is rendered βρουξοϚ or βρουχος by the LXX, in 2Chr 6:28, and Aquila here, and also the Vulgate in Chron. and Isa 33:4 and Jerome here, bruchus, the chaffer, which every one knows to be a great devourer of the leaves of trees. The Syriac in Joel 1:4; Joel 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.

destroyed or, killed

with hail Ps 105:32-33; Exod 9:18-34

sycamore From the value of the sycamore in furnishing wood for various uses, from the grateful shade which its wide spreading branches afforded, and on account of the fruit, which Mr. Maillet says the Egyptians hold in the highest estimation, we may conceive somewhat of the loss they sustained when "their vines were destroyed with hail; and their sycamore trees with frost." See note on 1Chr 27:28.

frost or, great hailstones

gave up Heb. shut up

hot thunderbolts or, lightnings, Exod 9:28

cast Ps 11:6; Job 20:23; Isa 42:25; Lam 4:11; Zeph 3:8; Rom 2:8-9

by sending 1Kgs 22:21-22; Job 1:12, Job 2:6-7

made way Heb. weighed a path

he spared Job 27:22; Ezek 5:11, Ezek 7:4, Ezek 7:9, Ezek 8:18, Ezek 9:10; Rom 8:32; 2Pet 2:4-5

life over to the pestilence or, beasts to the murrain, Exod 9:3-6

smote Ps 105:36, Ps 135:8, Ps 136:10; Exod 12:12, Exod 12:29-30, Exod 13:15; Heb 11:28

the chief Gen 49:3

tabernacles Ps 105:23, Ps 106:22; Gen 9:22-25, Gen 10:6

But Ps 77:20, Ps 105:37; Neh 9:12; Isa 63:11-14