Psalms 77:46
And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et dedit ærugini fructus eorum, et labores eorum locustæ ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔδωκεν τῇ ἐρυσίβῃ τὸν καρπὸν αὐτῶν, καὶ τοὺς πόνους αὐτῶν τῇ ἀκρίδι·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:46
- וַיִּתֵּ֣ן לֶחָסִ֣יל יְבוּלָ֑ם וִֽ֝יגִיעָ֗ם לָאַרְבֶּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Blast. Hebrew also "the bruchus," (Haydock) a sort of locust, which does great damage in the East. (Calmet)
Chasil may signify both. (Berthier)
Ovid speaks of the blast:
Interea crescat scabræ rubiginis expers. (Fast. 1.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
23. I say then of these crooked and embittering persons, “How often they exasperated Him in the desert, and provoked Him to wrath in the waterless place!” ( ver. 40 ). “And they turned themselves and tempted God, and exasperated the Holy One of Israel” ( ver. 41 ). He is repeating that same unbelief of theirs, of which He had made mention above. But the reason of the repetition is, in order that there may be mentioned also the plagues which He inflicted on the Egyptians for their sakes: all which things they certainly ought to have remembered, and not to be ungrateful. Lastly, there followeth what? “They remembered not His hands, in the day when He redeemed them from the hand of the troubler” ( ver. 42 ). And he beginneth to speak of what things He did to the Egyptians: “He set in Egypt His signs, and His prodigies in the plain of Thanis” ( ver. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXIX
10. Lastly, there followeth, “For they have eaten up Jacob, and his place they have made desolate” ( ver. 7 ).…How we should view “the place” of Jacob, must be understood. For rather the place of Jacob may be supposed to be that city, wherein was also the Temple, whither-unto the whole of that nation for the purpose of sacrifice and worship, and to celebrate the Passover, the Lord had commanded to assemble. For if the assemblies of Christians, letted and suppressed by persecutors, has been what the Prophet would have to be understood, it would seem that he should have said, places made desolate, not place. …