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THE MESSAGE
Exodus 10:4
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Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
But if you are refusing to release my people, look, I am about to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
If you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.
But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
'For if you refuse to let My people go, then hear this: tomorrow I will bring [migratory] locusts into your country.
'For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
But if thou refuse to let my people go, beholde, to morowe will I bring grashoppers into thy coastes.
For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
Do this by tomorrow, or I will cover your country with so many locusts
Otherwise, if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
For, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, I will to-morrow bring locusts into thy borders;
If you refuse to let my people go, then tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.
For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
Else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts upon all Four domain;
If you keep on refusing, then I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.
But if you refuse to let my people go, then tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
For if you refuse to send away My people, behold, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
Yf thou wilt not let my people go, beholde, tomorow wil I cause greshoppers to come vpon all places,
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border:
For if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will send locusts into your land:
Or els if thou refuse to let my people go, beholde, to morowe wyll I bryng greshoppers into thy coastes:
Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border;
Els, if thou refuse to let my people goe, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast.
But if thou wilt not send my people away, behold, at this hour to-morrow I will bring an abundance of locusts upon all thy coasts.
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow will I bring locusts into thy border:
But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
and nylt delyuere it, lo! Y schal brynge in to morewe a locuste in to thi coostis,
for if thou art refusing to send My people away, lo, I am bringing in to-morrow the locust into thy border,
For if you refuse to let my people go, look, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your border:
Else, if thou shalt refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring the locusts into thy border:
Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
If you refuse, watch out! For tomorrow I will bring a swarm of locusts on your country.
If you will not let My people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.
For if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.
But if, refusing, thou art to let my people go, behold me bringing in tomorrow a locust within thy bounds;
But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I will bring in to-morrow the locusts into thy coasts;
For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
'For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
morrow: Exodus 8:10, Exodus 8:23, Exodus 9:5, Exodus 9:18, Exodus 11:4, Exodus 11:5
locusts: The word arbeh, Locust, is derived from ravah, to multiply, be numerous, etc., because they are more prolific than any other insect, and because of the immense swarms of them by which different countries, especially the East, are infested. The locust, in entomology, belongs to a genus of insects known among naturalists by the name of Grylli; which includes three species, crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. The common great brown locust is about three inches in length; has two antennae about an inch long, and two pair of wings. The head and horns are brown; the mouth and inside of the larger legs bluish; the upper side of the body and upper wings brown, the former spotted with black, and the latter with dusky spots. The back is defended by a shield of a greenish hue: the under wings are of a light brown, tinctured with green, and nearly transparent. It has a large open mouth, in the two jaws of which it has four teeth, which traverse each other like scissors, being calculated, from their mechanism, to gripe or cut. The general appearance of the insect is that of the grasshopper. The Egyptians had gods in whom they trusted to deliver them from these terrible invaders; but by this judgment they were taught that it was impossible to stand before Moses, the servant of Jehovah. Proverbs 30:27, Joel 1:4-7, Joel 2:2-11, Joel 2:25, Revelation 9:3
Reciprocal: Exodus 7:14 - he refuseth Exodus 9:2 - General Exodus 10:12 - eat every Leviticus 11:22 - General 2 Chronicles 7:13 - I command Jeremiah 38:21 - if thou James 4:6 - God
Cross-References
Wail, ships of Tarshish, your strong seaports all in ruins! When the ships returned from Cyprus, they saw the destruction. Hold your tongue, you who live on the seacoast, merchants of Sidon. Your people sailed the deep seas, buying and selling, Making money on wheat from Shihor, grown along the Nile— multinational broker in grains! Hang your head in shame, Sidon. The Sea speaks up, the powerhouse of the ocean says, "I've never had labor pains, never had a baby, never reared children to adulthood, Never gave life, never worked with life. It was all numbers, dead numbers, profit and loss."
"‘Tarshish carried on business with you because of your great wealth. They worked for you, trading in silver, iron, tin, and lead for your products.
"‘The great Tarshish ships were your freighters, importing and exporting. Oh, it was big business for you, trafficking the seaways!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go,.... He threatens him with the following plague, the plague of the locusts, which Pliny x calls "denrum irae pestis":
behold, tomorrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast; according to Bishop Usher y this was about the seventh day of the month Abib, that this plague was threatened, and on the morrow, which was the eighth day, it was brought; but Aben Ezra relates it as an opinion of Japhet an Hebrew writer, that there were many days between the plague of the hail, and the plague of the locusts, that there might be time for the grass and plants to spring out of the field; but this seems not necessary, for these locusts only ate of what were left of the hail, as in the following verse.
x Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 29. y Annales Vet. Test. p. 21.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The locusts - The locust is less common in Egypt than in many eastern countries, yet it is well known, and dreaded as the most terrible of scourges. They come generally from the western deserts, but sometimes from the east and the southeast. No less than nine names are given to the locust in the Bible, of which the word used here is the most common (ארבה 'arbeh); it signifies “multitudinous,” and whenever it occurs reference is made to its terrible devastations.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
The EIGHTH plague - the LOCUSTS
Verse Exodus 10:4. To-morrow will I bring the locusts — The word ארבה arbeh, a locust, is probably from the root רבה rabah, he multiplied, became great, mighty, c. because of the immense swarms of these animals by which different countries, especially the east, are infested. The locust, in entomology, belongs to a genus of insects known among naturalists by the term GRYLLI; and includes three species, crickets, grasshoppers, and those commonly called locusts; and as they multiply faster than any other animal in creation, they are properly entitled to the name ארבה arbeh, which might be translated the numerous or multiplied insect. See this circumstance referred to, Judges 6:5; Judges 7:12; Psalms 105:34; Jeremiah 46:23; Jeremiah 51:14; Joel 1:6; Nahum 3:15; Judith 2:19, 20; where the most numerous armies are compared to the arbeh or locust. The locust has a large open mouth; and in its two jaws it has four incisive teeth, which traverse each other like scissors, being calculated, from their mechanism, to grip or cut. Mr. Volney, in his Travels in Syria, gives a striking account of this most awful scourge of God: -
"Syria partakes together with Egypt and Persia, and almost all the whole middle part of Asia, in the terrible scourge, I mean those clouds of locusts of which travellers have spoken; the quantity of which is incredible to any person who has not himself seen them, the earth being covered by them for several leagues round. The noise they make in browsing the plants and trees may be heard at a distance, like an army plundering in secret. Fire seems to follow their tracks. Wherever their legions march the verdure disappears from the country, like a curtain drawn aside; the trees and plants, despoiled of their leaves, make the hideous appearance of winter instantly succeed to the bright scenes of spring. When these clouds of locusts take their flight, in order to surmount some obstacle, or the more rapidly to cross some desert, one may literally say that the sun is darkened by them."
Baron de Tott gives a similar account: "Clouds of locusts frequently alight on the plains of the Noguais, (the Tartars,) and giving preference to their fields of millet, ravage them in an instant. Their approach darkens the horizon, and so enormous is their multitude, it hides the light of the sun. They alight on the fields, and there form a bed of six or seven inches thick. To the noise of their flight succeeds that of their devouring actively, which resembles the rattling of hail-stones; but its consequences are infinitely more destructive. Fire itself eats not so fast; nor is there any appearance of vegetation to be found when they again take their flight, and go elsewhere to produce new disasters."
Dr. Shaw, who witnessed most formidable swarms of these in Barbary in the years 1724 and 1725, gives the following account of them: "They were much larger than our grasshoppers, and had brown-spotted wings, with legs and bodies of a bright yellow. Their first appearance was towards the latter end of March. In the middle of April their numerous swarms, like a succession of clouds, darkened the sun. In the month of May they retired to the adjacent plains to deposit their eggs: these were no sooner hatched in June than the young brood first produced, while in their caterpillar or worm-like state, formed themselves into a compact body of more than a furlong square, and, marching directly forward, climbed over trees, walls, and houses, devouring every plant in their way. Within a day or two another brood was hatched, and advancing in the same manner, gnawed off the young branches and bark of the trees left by the former, making a complete desolation. The inhabitants, to stop their progress, made a variety of pits and trenches all over their fields and gardens, which they filled with water, or else heaped up therein heath, stubble, c., which they set on fire but to no purpose: for the trenches were quickly filled up and the fires extinguished, by infinite swarms succeeding one another; while the front seemed regardless of danger, and the rear pressed on so close that retreat was altogether impossible. In a month's time they threw off their worm-like state; and in a new form, with wings and legs, and additional powers, returned to their former voracity." - Shaw's Travels, 187. 188, 4to edition.
The descriptions given by these travellers show that God's army, described by the Prophet Joel, Joel 2:1-11, was innumerable swarms of locusts, to which the accounts given by Dr. Shaw and others exactly agree.
