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34 He ordered locusts to come,[a]
innumerable grasshoppers.
35 They ate all the vegetation in their land,
and devoured the crops of their fields.[b]
36 He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the firstfruits of their reproductive power.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 105:34 tn Heb “he spoke and locusts came.”
  2. Psalm 105:35 tn Heb “the fruit of their ground.”
  3. Psalm 105:36 tn Heb “the beginning of all their strength,” that is, reproductive power (see Ps 78:51).sn Verses 28-36 recall the plagues in a different order than the one presented in Exodus: v. 28 (plague 9), v. 29 (plague 1), v. 30 (plague 2), v. 31a (plague 4), v. 31b (plague 3), vv. 32-33 (plague 7), vv. 34-35 (plague 8), v. 36 (plague 10). No reference is made in Ps 105 to plagues 5 and 6.

34 He spoke,(A) and the locusts came,(B)
    grasshoppers(C) without number;(D)
35 they ate up every green thing in their land,
    ate up the produce of their soil.
36 Then he struck down all the firstborn(E) in their land,
    the firstfruits of all their manhood.

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