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# gave their crops to the grasshopper and their labor to the locust
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"allowed the grasshoppers to eat all their crops and allowed the locusts to eat everything they had worked hard to produce"
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# grasshopper
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a plant-eating insect with long legs used for jumping
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# He gave their crops to the grasshopper
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Asaph speaks of the crops as a gift that God gave to the grasshoppers. Alternate translation: "He allowed the grasshopper to eat their crops" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# their labor to the locust
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"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. Alternate translation: "he allowed the locusts to eat the crops they had worked so hard to produce" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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