John Gill Commentary Psalms 105:33

"He smote their vines also and their fig-trees, And brake the trees of their borders." — Psalms 105:33 (ASV)

He smote their vines also, and their fig trees
So that they died; for in (Psalms 78:47), it is said, he "killed" them; and it is not only used in common speech with us, but with classical writers ^F2 to speak of killing inanimate things, as trees, herbs. That is, the hail smote them, or God by the hail; these are particularly mentioned because most useful, producing grapes and figs.

And brake the trees of their coasts :
all the trees within the borders of their land, (Exodus 9:25).

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FOOTNOTES:

• F2: "----interice messes", Virgil. Georgic. l. 4. "Neque herbas crescere et interfici", Ciceron. Oeconom: ex Xenophon, l. 3.