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2:25; Am 4:9The learned Bochart, and others, are of the opinion that the four Hebrew words, {gazam, yelek, arbeh, chasil}, respectively rendered the palmer-worm, locust, canker-worm and caterpillar, denote four different species of locusts. See on

Ex 10:4

the locust eaten.

Ex 10:12-15; De 28:38,42; 1Ki 8:37; 2Ch 6:28; 7:13

Ps 78:46; 105:34; Am 7:1; Re 9:3-7

the canker-worm eaten.

Na 3:15-17

the caterpillar.

Isa 33:4; Jer 51:14,27

Awake.

Isa 24:7-11; Am 6:3-7; Lu 21:34-36; Ro 13:11-14

weep.

11,13; Jer 4:8; Eze 30:2; Jas 5:1

for.

Isa 32:10-12; Lu 16:19,23-25

nation.

2:2-11,25; Pr 30:25-27

my.

Ps 107:34; Isa 8:8; 32:13; Ho 9:3

whose.

Pr 30:14; Re 9:7-10

laid.

12; Ex 10:15; Ps 105:33; Isa 5:6; 24:7; Jer 8:13; Ho 2:12; Hab 3:17

barked my fig-tree. Heb. laid my fig-tree for a barking.

Lament.

13-15; 2:12-14; Isa 22:12; 24:7-12; 32:11; Jer 9:17-19; Jas 4:8,9

Jas 5:1

the husband.

Pr 2:17; Jer 3:4; Mal 2:15

meat.

13,16; 2:14; Ho 9:4

the priests.

2:17; La 1:4,16

the Lord's.

Ex 28:1; 2Ch 13:10; Isa 61:6

field.

17-20; Le 26:20; Isa 24:3,4; Jer 12:4,11; 14:2-6; Ho 4:3

the new.

5,12; Isa 24:11; Jer 48:33; Ho 9:2; Hag 1:11

dried up. or, ashamed.

ashamed.

Jer 14:3,4; Ro 5:5

because.

Isa 17:11; Jer 9:12

The vine.Dr. Shaw observes, that in Barbary, in the month of June the locusts are no sooner hatched than they collect themselves into compact bodies, each a "furlong or more square; and marching directly after they are come to life, make their way towards the sea and let nothing escape them, eating up everything that is green or juicy; not only the lesser vegetables, but the vine likewise, the fig-tree, the pomegranate, the palm, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field."

10; Hab 3:17,18

the pomegranate.

Nu 13:23; Ps 92:12; So 2:3; 4:13; 7:7-9

joy.

16; Ps 4:7; Isa 9:3; 16:10; 24:11; Jer 48:3; Ho 9:1,2

Gird.

8,9; 2:17; Jer 4:8; 9:10; Eze 7:18

ye ministers.

1Co 9:13; Heb 7:13,14

lie.

2Sa 12:16; 1Ki 21:27; Jon 3:5-8

ye ministers.