Blasting and mildew. — Burning up the corn before it is ready to ear, and producing a tawny yellow, instead of golden red, was another judgment. Nothing escapes the Divine visitation. “Your gardens, vineyards, fig-trees, and olive-trees” — which in a well-watered enclosure might escape the general drought — the locust devours in vast numbers (so the Heb. should be rendered); comp. Joel 1:4.
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Amos 4:9
9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.