See an account of these plagues in Exodus 6–11. Compare Psalms 78:43-51. This is mostly a mere enumeration of the plagues in the order in which the…

Caterpillars.—To the locust, ‘aarbeh, exclusively mentioned in Exodus, the psalmist adds, as a poetical synonym to suit h…

There is great sublimity in this expression. God had only to speak, and whole battalions of devouring locusts and caterpillars seemed to leap out o…

He spake, and the grasshopper came. This calamity, which was brought upon the fields, could not be attributed to Fortune, for the grasshop…

He spoke, and the locusts came
A great army of them, and covered the land, that it was even darkened by them; and we…

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 numbe…