1.4 KiB
General Information:
The writer describes what God did.
swarms of flies
so many flies that it looked like a cloud
that devoured them
The flies made the Egyptians almost as unhappy as they would have if they had eaten the Egyptians. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole)
gave their crops to the grasshopper and their labor to the locust
"allowed the grasshoppers to eat all their crops and allowed the locusts to eat everything they had worked hard to produce"
overran
"went everywhere in"
grasshopper
a plant-eating insect with long legs used for jumping
He gave their crops to the grasshopper
Asaph speaks of the crops as a gift that God gave to the grasshoppers. AT: "He allowed the grasshopper to eat their crops" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
their labor to the locust
"he gave their labor to the locust." Asaph speaks of the people's labor as if it were a gift that God gave to the grasshoppers. The word "labor" is a metonym for the crops that their labor had produced. AT: "he allowed the locusts to eat the crops they had worked so hard to produce" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)