persecute his people; but that the
Egyptians took occasion of hating and envying them, from the sight of
the benefits which God bestowed upon them.

104:26. He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.

104:27. He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the
land of Cham.

104:28. He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his
words.

Grieved not his words... That is, he was not wanting to fulfil his
words: or he did not grieve Moses and Aaron, the carriers of his words:
or he did not grieve his words, that is, his sons, the children of
Israel, who enjoyed light whilst the Egyptians were oppressed with
darkness.

104:29. He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.

104:30. Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their
kings.

104:31. He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in
all their coasts.

Sciniphs... See the annotation, Ex.8.16.

104:32. He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.

104:33. And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he
broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.

104:34. He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there
was no number.

Bruchus... An insect of the locust kind.

104:35. And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all
the fruit of their ground.

104:36. And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of
all their labour.

104:37. And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not
among their tribes one that was feeble.

104:38. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon
them.

104:39. He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them
light in the night.

104:40. They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the
bread of heaven.

104:41. He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the
dry land.

104:42. Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his
servant Abraham.

104:43. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with
gladness.

104:44. And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed
the labours of the people:

104:45. That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his
law.

His justifications... That is, his commandments; which here, and in many
other places of the scripture, are called justifications, because the
keeping of them makes man just. The Protesta